[Rarebooks] FS: One of the Earliest Cookbooks Published in America, 1792

[Charles Agvent]

BRIGGS, Richard. THE NEW ART OF COOKERY, ACCORDING TO THE PRESENT 
PRACTICE; BEING A COMPLETE GUIDE TO ALL HOUSEKEEPERS, ON A PLAN ENTIRELY 
NEW; CONSISTING OF THIRTY-EIGHT CHAPTERS... Philadelphia: W. Spotswood, 
R. Campbell, and B. Johnson, 1792. First American Edition. Duodecimo 
(4-1/8" x 6-3/4") bound in contemporary calf leather with gilt rules on 
the spine and a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label; xiii, xii-xvi, 
557, [1-advertisement for Spotswood's books] pages, as issued. 
Originally issued in London in 1788, this is ONE OF THE EARLIEST 
COOKBOOKS PRINTED IN AMERICA. The chapters include material on wine and 
wine making, cordials, brewing, "proper rules to be observed in 
marketing," "rules for trussing," sauces, baking, broiling, and 
everything else. Briggs's prefatory remarks are dated 1788 and addressed 
to his readers "in hopes that they will find the Directions and Receipts 
more intelligible than in most Books of the Kind." BITTING, p.60, citing 
this Philadelphia edition as the main edition, and noting the other 
editions (including the two later Boston and Philadelphia editions of 
1798); EVANS 24145; LOWENSTEIN 14. Bookplate of the noted Americanist 
Michael Zinman on the front pastedown. Front free endpaper lacking; 
early owner name to top of title and the first page of text; light to 
moderate foxing; one gathering bound upside down; about five leaves 
trimmed closely, occasionally affecting a word or letter. Binding quite 
nice with partial splits on both covers which are holding firm. Very 
Good and quite scarce, especially in this complete, unmutilated 
condition. (#020848)        $2,500

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