The London art of cookery and housekeeper's complete assistant
Subtitle: on a new plan, made plain and easy to the understanding of every housekeeper, cook, and servant in the kingdom : containing  proper directions for the choice of all kinds of provisions, instructions for trussing poultry, roasting and boiling all sorts of butchers meat, poultry, game, and fish, baking, broiling and frying sauces for every occasion, soups, broths, stews, and hashes, ragoos and fricassees, made dishes, both plain and elegant, all sorts of pies and puddings, pancakes and fritters, proper instructions for dressing fruits and vegetables, pickling, potting, and preserving, the preparation of hams, tongues, and bacon, to keep garden stuffs and fruits in perfection, the whole art of confectionary, the preparation of sugars, tarts, puffs, and pasties , cakes, custards, jams, and jellies, drying, candying, and preserving fruits, &c. elegant ornaments for entertainments, instructions for carving, necessary articles for sea-faring persons, made wines, cordial waters, and malt liquors : to which is added, an appendix, containing considerations on culinary poisons, directions for making broths, &c. for the sick,  a list of things in season in the different months of the year, marketing tables, &c. &c. : embellished with a head of the author, and a bill of fare for every month in the year, elegantly engraved on thirteen copper-plates
By: by John Farley, principal cook at the London Tavern
Contributors: Law, B. (Bedwell), -1798, bookseller; Scatcherd and Whitaker; G. & T. Wilkie (Firm)
Edition: The sixth edition, with the addition of near two hundred new and elegant receipts in the various branches of cookery.
Publisher: Printed for J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, B. Law, and G. and T. Wilkie
Published: 1789
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
Subjects: Early works to 1800; English Cooking; Cooking
Notes: Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ B--2F⁸ 2G⁴.

Advertisements: last page.

MacLean, V.  Household and cookery books, page 50

ESTC N2648

Gift of Anne Willan and Mark Cherniavsky.

Binding: mottled calf; spine rebacked; label with title on spine; Anne Willan's bookplate on front pastedown.

Two signatures in different hands on title page.

Library's copy lacks engraved frontispiece portrait of John Farley, present in other copies.