English Housewifery, Exemplified in Above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts, giving directions in most parts of Cookery; And how to prepare various Sorts of Soops [sic], Made Dishes, Pates, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, &c. &c. &c..... With an Appendix, Containing upwards of Eighty Receipts, of the most valuable kind (many never be fore printed).... The Thirteenth Edition, Corrected.
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Leeds: Printed by Thomas Wright, For J. Binns, and W. Fawdington..., 1790. 12mo (in 6s), 168 x 98 mms., pp. viii, 203 [204 blank]. BOUND WITH: English Housewifery Improved; or a Supplement to Moxon's Cookery. Containing Upwards of Sixty Modern and Valuable Receipts, In Pastry, Preserving, Made Dishes, Made Wines, &c. Collected by a Person of Judgment. With Corrections and Additions. The Thirteenth Edition. Leeds Printed by Thomas Wright. 1790. 12mo, pp. 37 [38 - 44 Bills of Fare, 45 - 52 Index, with five engraved plates (two folding, the second - "A Grand Table in Winter" - defective at lower margin) of suggested meals. 2 volumes in 1, bound in contemporary sheepskin, neatly rebacked in sheepskin, with gilt spine, red morocco label; corners worn, but a good copy. Despite the appearance of two volumes, with separate pagination, the second item continues the register. Elizabeth Moxon (fl. 17401754) published this work in Leeds as English Housewifry [sic] in 1741, and many subsequent editions followed. S. M. Pennel in the ODNB entry for Moxon comments, "Moxon's recipes do not particularly reflect a regional taste. However, with every edition from the second (c.1743), distributed in London as well as Leeds and other Yorkshire towns, English Housewifry was arguably the first cookery book to travel from the provinces to the capital, rather than vice versa.... Like Hannah Glasse she may have entered the provincial print market out of financial necessity, as a widow or a single woman without other means of support. Given her lack of authorial pretension it is perhaps ironic that English Housewifry places her among the female pioneers of English culinary writing." Uncommon. ESTC T77095 locates copies in BL, Leeds, Thoresby Society; Trinity College (Hartford Connecticut).
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- English Housewifery, Exemplified in Above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts, giving directions in most parts of Cookery; And how to prepare various Sorts of Soops [sic], Made Dishes, Pates, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, &c. &c. &c..... With an Appendix, Containing upwards of Eighty Receipts, of the most valuable kind (many never be fore printed).... The Thirteenth Edition, Corrected.
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- MOXON (Elizabeth):
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- Leeds: Printed by Thomas Wright, For J. Binns, and W. Fawdington..., 1790
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