The House-keeper's Pocket-Book, and Compleat Family Cook

London: C. and R. Ware, 1764. Eighth Edition. Hardcover (rebound in cloth). Good Condition. Rebound in brown buckram, old recipe for turpentine on endpaper, the dedication page (To all the good house-wives in Great Britain) has loss of 1.5 inches to bottom part of the page; this has been relined with old paper but with the loss of about a dozen words, pages 102-106 have had some tears repaired with archival japanese paper and wheat paste, p. 124 likewise, tear to 202 with no loss, and the bottom half of the last page of index lacking replaced with old paper. Twenty woodcuts of table settings. (iv), 215, (23 pp. Tables of Interest), 36 pp. (Every One Their Own Physician), 6pp. Cagle 724 (1760 ed.), Bitting 217, Vicaire 438 (1755 ed.). Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000167.