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“Cookery is Become aScience . . . Which Seems Now
to have Reached a Very High Degree ofPerfection”

Collingwood, Francis, & John Woollams. The universal cook, and city and country housekeeper. Containing all the various branches of cookery.... London: Pr. by R. Noble for J. Scatcherd & J. Whitaker, 1792. 8vo (21.3 cm, 8.4"). [28], 451, [1] pp.; 14 plts.
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illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the two authors, along with 13 other plates

At the back are sections on wine, cordials, and malt liquors; on the management of poultry; and on kitchen and fruit gardens.

Uncommon

NUC Pre-1956

Provenance: Armorial bookplate of the Sherwin family.

• ESTC T50471; Bitting 94–95; Cagle 625. Contemporary sheep, rebacked; spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels and gilt-ruled compartments, board edges with gilt roll; corners and edges rubbed. Front pastedown with bookplate. Frontispiece lightly foxed; light spotting scattered throughout. A sound, clean, pleasant copy. (24532)

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