The Complete Family-Piece: and Country Gentleman and Farmer's Best Guide
Book Description
Gilly Lehmann describes this book as 'a manual for the rising middle-class who were hoping to join the ranks of county society. The various chapters offer advice to husband and wife, bringing together several books in one volume, a point stressed in the preface' on p. iv. She also says that almost all the cookery and confectionery recipes come from E Smith's 'The Compleat Housewife'. (LEHMANN Gilly, The British Housewife, Prospect Books 2003, p. 104)
Dealer Notes
Maclean p. 33, Bitting p. 534, Vicaire p. 199, Oxford p. 68
Author
Anon
Date
1737, Second edition, improved
Binding
Contemporary calf, Cambridge style; 17.5cm
Publisher
A Bettesworth et al., London
Condition
Worn, front hinge repaired, mod calf and gilt title to spine; LACKING front endpaper; a little worming, tanning, spotting, damp-staining, occasional notes and marks, p433 repaired
Pages
xii, 526, [60]
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