The Complete family-piece
Subtitle: and, country gentleman, and farmer's best guide. In three parts. Part I. containing a ... collection of above one thousand well-experienced practical family-receipts ... Part II. containing, I. Full instructions to be observed in hunting, coursing, setting and shooting ... II. Cautions, rules, and directions to be taken and observed in fishing; with the manner of making and preserving of rods, lines, floats, artificial flies, &c. and for chusing and preserving several sorts of curious baits. III. A full ... kalendar of all work necessary to be done in the fruit, flower, and kitchen gardens ... Part III. containing, practical rules, and methods, for the improving of land, and managing a farm in all its branches.
Contributors: Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
Edition: 2d ed. improved.
Publisher: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch [etc.]
Published: 1737
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
Subjects: Cookery -- Early works to 1800; Recipes -- Early works to 1800; Hunting -- Early works to 1800; Fishing -- Early works to 1800; Agriculture -- Early works to 1800
Notes: Includes indexes.
LC copy: Title leaf and p. xi-xii wanting. Inserted after p. x is a "receipt ... for the cure of the stone and gravel" (4 p.) dated June 16, 1739, and signed: J[oanna] Stephens.
Source: Gift of A.W. Bitting, presented in memory of Katherine Golden Bitting, Oct. 6, 1939.