The new London family cook, or, Town and country housekeeper's guide : comprehending directions for marketing, with illustrative plates, on a principle entirely new : general observations, and bills of fare for every week in the year : practical instructions for preparing soups, broths, gravies, sauces, and made dishes, and for dressing fish, venison, butcher's meat, poultry, game, &c. in all their varieties : with the respective branches of pastry and confectionary, the art of potting, pickling, preserving, &c. : cookery for the sick, and for the poor : directions for carving and a glossary of the most generally received French and English terms in the culinary art : also a selection of valuable family recipes, in dyeing, perfumery, &c. : instructions for brewing, making of British wines, distilling, managing the dairy, and gardening : and an appendix, containing general directions for servants relative to the cleaning of household furniture, floor-cloths, stoves, marble chimney-pieces, &c. ; concluding with an alphabetical list of the most respectable manufacturers and dealers in the various articles connected with domestic economy : forming in the whole a most complete family instructor /
Macdonald, Duncan,head cook at the Bedford Tavern, Covent Garden.
Malcolm, George,factor,former owner.StEdNL: AB.2.221.25
Thomson, Robert,of Adelphi Cotton Works,former owner.StEdNL: AB.2.221.25
London : Albion Press, printed for James Cundee, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row, Printed by James Cundee, Ivy-Lane)
1808.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-4K⁴ 4L1.
Preface dated Jan. 1, 1808.
Printer statement from page 634.
Bookplates on the front and back pastedowns of Robert Thompson of the Adelphi Cotton Works, Hutchesontown. The first reads "Adelphi Thread / Robert Thomson / Glasgow". On the back pastedown the bookplate reads "Thomson / Glasgow / La Gran Bretana Ofreciendo Paz. Libertad, Y Comercio, a La Nueva Espana. / Adelphi Cotton Thread".  Thomson was thought to be the first in Glasgow to manufacture cotton goods. The bookplates celebrate the owner's business success and the trade origins of his cotton and apparently referring to the wars in the Americas. The front bookplate appears to depict a romanticized depiction of a native American Indian. Small bookplate on the front pastdown of "George Malcolm, Craigard". Malcolm was the factor on the Glengarry Estate.
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