E. Kidder's receipts of pastry and cookery
Subtitle: for the use of his scholars : who teaches at his school in Queen Street near St. Thomas Apostles, on Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays, in the afternoon also on Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays, in the afternoon at his school next to Furnivals Inn in Holborn : ladies may be taught at their own houses
Contributors: Sheppard, Robert, active 1730-1740, engraver
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1720
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 43
Subjects: Early works to 1800; English Cooking; Cooking; Handbooks, manuals
Notes: Publication date from Bitting and Wellcome.

Engraved throughout, on the recto of each leaf.

The leaves are sporadically foliated.

A reissue of the edition in which Kidder's school address is given as "St. Martins le grand", with a different title page; additional text added to leaves F2 and H1 resulting in the final line of text on both leaves being on the same level as the alphabetical numbering system; a different index leaf, without "fins" at foot and with the alphabetical numbering system in the inner margin; with the possible addition of leaf K2 and the leaf of illustration containing 'Lamb pastey' and 'Wilde Boar Pye'.

Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author signed: Rob. Sheppard sculp.

Bitting describes two portrait variants; this copy's portrait has magistrate's wig.

Includes both the leaf signed K2 and the leaf of illustration containing 'Lamb pastey' and 'Wilde Boar Pye'.

Wellcome cat. of printed books, III, p. 390

Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 259

ESTC T92424

Binding: contemporary calf; boards blind tooled with panel design of three frames; fleurons at corners of second frame; spine gilt tooled with morocco title label.