Murrell's two bookes of cookerie and carving.
Contributors: Oxford, Arnold Whitaker, b. 1854, former owner.; Hodgkin, John Eliot, former owner.; Beaufoy, Henry Benjamin Hanbury, 1786-1851, former owner.; Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress); Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by M.F. for John Marriot and are to be sold at his shop ...
Published: 1641
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Cookery, English -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Bitting, K.G.  Gastronomic bib., p. 336-337
"The fourth time printed with new additions."
"Evidently made up of different editions: 1st part, 4th edition, 1631; 2d part, 6th, 1641; 3d, 1631. The pagination is continuous ... and it is said to be the same in all the editions so that the parts could be used from various editions to make up a volume."--Cf. Bitting.
Signatures: A-M⁸ N⁸(-N8).
Each part has a special t.p.: A new booke of Cookerie ... by John Murrell; The second booke of cookerie, wherein is set forth the newest and most commendable fashion of dressing, boyling, soucing ... the sixth impression, 1641; A new booke of carving and sewing. London, printed by M.F. for I. Marriot, 1631.
LC copy imperfect: collective t.p. and p. 5-6 wanting (title and imprint from Bitting); Bookplates of Arnold W. Oxford and John Hodgkin.