The Modern method of regulating and forming a table explained and displayed
Subtitle: containing a great variety of dinners laid out in the most elegant taste, from two courses of five and five to twenty-one and twenty-one dishes, finely represented on one hundred and fifty-two copper plates : together with twelve elegant dinners for different seasons of the year and a correct list of such particulars as are in season during every month : the whole calculated for the use and ease of ladies, clerks of the kitchen, house-keepers, &c.
By: by several eminent cooks and others well acquainted with these arts.
Contributors: Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for J. Hughes ... and S. Crowder ...
Published: 1770
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Table setting and decoration.; Menus.
Notes: Bitting, K.G.  Gastronomic bib., p. 579
Stanley Crowder was active under his own name, and at the address given on the t.p. (No. 12 Pater-noster Row), between 1770 and 1786. Cf. The London book trades, 1775-1800 / Ian Maxted. The same source shows John Hughes at Bond Street, the t.p. address, in 1774.
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LC copy has binder's title: Regulating a dinner table.
Source: Gift of A.W. Bitting, presented in memory of Katherine Golden Bitting, Oct. 6, 1939.