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.
Contributors: Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
Edition: The fifth edition / to which is added, a second part, containing a great number of excellent receipts, for preserving and conserving of sweet-meats, &c.
Publisher: Printed for the executrix of Mary Kettilby, and sold by W. Parker ...
Published: 1734
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Cookery -- Early works to 1800; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800
Other titles: Collection of receipts in cookery, physick, and surgery.
Notes: Maclean, V.  Household and cookery books, p. 82
Bitting, K.G.  Gastronomic bib., p. 258
"There is little doubt ... that Mary Kettilby was the principal author"--Maclean.
Second part has special t.p., which reads: A collection of receipts in cookery, physick, and surgery. Part II. Containing likewise a great number of excellent receipts, for preserving and conserving of sweet-meat, &c. By several hands. The fourth edition. London : Printed for W. Parker ..., MDCCXXXIV.
Signatures: A-R⁸ S².
Source: Gift of A.W. Bitting, presented in memory of Katherine Golden Bitting, Oct. 6, 1939.