COOKERY & HUSBANDRY - [G. MARKHAM (c.1568-1637)]. The English House-Wife, London, 1668, 4to (browned and spotted throughout), later boards. The Eighth edition. With 12 other books, most related, including works by Hannah Glasse and Elizabeth Raffald. (13)

COOKERY & HUSBANDRY - [Gervase MARKHAM (c.1568-1637)].  The English House-Wife containing The inward and outward Vertues which ought to be in a Compleat Woman: As her Skill in Physick, Chirurgery, Cookery, Extraction of Oyles, Banqueting stuff, Ordering of Great Feasts, Preserving of all sorts of Wines, conceited Secrets, Distillations, Perfumes, Ordering of Wool, Hemp, Flax: making Cloth and Dying; the Knowledge of Dayries: Office of Malting; of Oats, their excellent uses in Families: of Brewing, Baking, and all other things belonging to an Houshold. A Work generally approved, and now the Eighth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this Nation. By G. M. London: "Printed by J. Streater for George Sawbridge, dwelling on Clerkenwell-Green," 1668. Small 4to (194 x 145mm). Typographical decorative borders, initials printed in bold, woodcut diagrams on one page (Mmm1-4 mispaginated, hole in upper margin of [Ooo4], Ppp1-4 mispaginated, some minor worming at upper margins, browned and spotted throughout, a few larger and darker spots). 19th-century roan-backed marbled boards (extremities rubbed, later endpapers). Provenance: Wm. Geo. Waters (armorial bookplate); Mrs Jean Morrison (modern label). cf. Bitting Gastronomic Bibliography (1939) p.309; Poynter A Bibliography of Gervase Markham (1962) pp.128-131; Simon Bibliotheca gastronomica (1953) 1005. The work was first published in 1615. With 12 other books, most of related interest, including the same author's Markham's farewell to Husbandry: or, the Enriching of all Sorts of Barren and Sterile Grounds in our Nation ... Now newly the fifth time, revised, corrected, and amended, together with many new Additions, and cheap experiments (London, "Printed by W. Wilson, for E. Brewster, and George Sawbridge", 1653, small 4to, woodcut illustrations, modern old-style calf), Eliza Smith's The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion ... The Fifteenth Edition (London, 1753, 8vo, engraved frontispiece and plates, some defective, contemporary calf, crudely rebacked), John Hill's The Useful Family Herbal ... The Second Edition (London, 1755, 8vo, 8 engraved plates, index in contemporary manuscript at the end, contemporary calf), Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy ... The Twentieth Edition (Edinburgh, "Printed by James Donaldson," 1791, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked, new endpapers), Elizabeth Raffald's The Experienced English Housekeeper ... A New Edition (London, 1793, 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece and folding plates, with 4-pages of contemporary manuscript recipes inserted at the end [see illustration], contemporary reverse calf, worn, with a later pencil note at the front stating "This edition of 1793 is believed to be a pirated edition") and [William Kitchiner's] The Cook's Oracle (London, 1822, 8vo, defective, lacking leaves at the end, original paper boards, rebacked). Sold as a collection, not subject to return. (13)