[Rarebooks] fa: FARLEY'S LONDON ART OF COOKERY - 1796

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, May 13. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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John Farley: The London Art of Cookery, and Housekeeper’s Complete Assistant. On a New Plan. Made Plain and Easy to the Understanding of every Housekeeper, Cook, and Servant, in the Kingdom… To which is added, an Appendix, Containing Considerations on Culinary Poisons; Directions for making Broths, &c. for the Sick; a List of Things in Season in the different Months of the Year; Marketing Tables, &c. &c. Embellished With A Head of the Author, and a Bill of Fare for every Month in the Year, elegantly engraven on Thirteen Copper-plates. By John Farley, principal Cook at the London Tavern. The Eighth Edition. With the Addition of many new and elegant Receipts in the various Branches of Cookery. London: Printed for J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, No 12, B. Law, No 13, Ave-Maria-Lane; and G. and T. Wilkie, Paternoster-Row, 1796. Bound in modern dark brown rexine(?) decorated in blind, with gilt-stamped spine labels; 8vo (20.5 cm); viii + [20] + 458 pp.; thirteen copper-engraved plates, including frontispiece. ESTC T121903.

The subtitle continues: Containing, proper directions for the choice of all kinds of provisions. Instructions for trussing Poultry. Roasting and boiling all Sorts of Butcher’s Meat, Poultry, Game, and Fish. Baking, Broiling, and Frying. Sauces for every Occasion. Soups, Broths, Stews, and Hashes. Ragoos and Fricassees. Made Dishes, both plain and elegant. All Sorts of Pies and Puddings-Pancakes and Fritters. Proper Instructions for dressing Fruits and Vegetables. Pickling, Potting, and Preserving. The Preparation of Hams, Tongues, and Bacon. To keep Garden Stuffs and Fruits in Perfection. The whole Art of Confectionary. The Preparation of Sugars. Tarts, Puffs, and Pasties. Cakes, Custards, Jams, and Jellies. Drying, Candying, and Preserving Fruits, &c. Elegant  Ornaments for Entertainments, Instructions for Carving. Necessary Articles for Sea-Faring Persons. Made Wines, Cordial Waters, and Malt Liquors.

Title-page with the neat ownership signature of Mrs. James Steadman, 1802, who has also added occasional marks, emendations and useful notes in the margins ("everything salted requires to be longer in pickle in Frosty Weather", etc.) Binding with some rubbing to the joints and extremities; bound without the last page (the second of two Tables to cast up Expences or Wages); frontispiece a bit browned with 1" tear repaired on the verso; some offsetting to the plates; leaves mildly age-toned with occasional small spots and stains; otherwise sound and generally quite clean, firmly bound.