English housewifry, exemplified in above four hundred and fifty receipts
Subtitle: giving directions in most parts of cookery and how to prepare various sorts of soops, made-dishes, pastes, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made-wines, &c. : with cuts for the orderly placing the dishes and courses, also bills of fare for every month in the year, and an alphabetical index to the whole ...
By: by Elizabeth Moxon ; with an appendix containing upwards of sixty receipts of the most valuable kind, communicated to the publisher by several gentlewomen on the neighbourhood, distinguished by their extraordinary skill in housewifry.
Contributors: Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903, inscriber.; Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The ninth edition, corrected.
Publisher: Printed by Griffith Wright for G. Copperthwaite, bookseller in London, and sold by Mr. B. Dod ... Mrs. Richardson ... and Mr. Johnson ...
Published: 1764
Place of publication: Leedes
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Cookery, English -- Early works to 1800; Menus -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: English housewifery, exemplified in above four hundred and fifty receipts
Notes: Pennell, E.R.  My cookery books, p. 159-160
"A book necessary for mistresses of families, higher and lower women servants, and confined to things useful, substantial, and splendid, and calculated for the preservation of health, and upon the measures of frugality, being the result of thirty years practice and experience."
Signatures: A² ²A-K¹² [L]⁶.
First appendix (25 p.) has caption title: Supplement to Moxon's cookery; Second appendix has special t.p.: English housewifry improved, or, A supplement to Moxon's cookery, containing upwards of sixty modern and valuable receipts ... Collected by a person of judgment. 2nd ed.
Includes index.
LC copy inscribed to Mrs. J. Pennell by Charles G. Leland with ms. notes about cookery on 3 added leaves.