A collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick and surgery
Subtitle: for the use of all good wives, tender mothers, and careful nurses
By: by several hands
Edition: The 6th edition / to which is added, a 2nd part, containing a great number of excellent receipts, for preserving and conserving sweet-meats, &c.
Publisher: Printed for the executrix of Mary Kettilby, and sold by W. Parker ...
Published: 1746
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Medicine; Cooking; Early works to 1800; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Notes: Compiled by Mary Kettilby. Cf. ESTC. and MacLean.

Part 2 has separate t.p.; pagination continues that of part 1.

Signatures: A-R⁸ S².

Title in double frames; head- and tail-pieces.

Includes indexes.

ESTC (RLIN) N14841

MacLean, V. Household and cookery books, p. 82

Wellcome cat. of printed books, III, p. 389

From the American Institute of Wine & Food Collection.

Ms. notes on p. 51.

Old calf, rebacked, joints rubbed.