English housewifery
Subtitle: exemplified in above four hundred and fifty receipts, giving directions in most parts of cookery; and how to prepare various sorts of soups, made-dishes, pasties, 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 : 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
By: by Elizabeth Moxon ; with an appendix, containing upwards of seventy receipts, of the most valuable kind, (many never before printed) communicated to the publisher by several gentlewomen in the neighbourhood, distinguished by their extraordinary skill in housewifery ; to this edition is now added, an introduction, giving an account of the times when river fish are in season, and a table, shewing at one view the proper seasons for sea fish
Contributors: Wright, Thomas, printer; Fawdington, W., publisher; Bent, William, 1747-1823, bookseller; Moxon, Elizabeth; Scatcherd and Whitaker
Edition: The twelfth edition, corrected.
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Wright, for W. Fawdington; and sold by Scatcherd and Whitaker, Ave-Mary Lane; William Bent, Pater-noster-row, London; and by most booksellers in Great Britain
Published: 1785
Place of publication: Leeds
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: English Cooking; Early works to 1800; Cooking; Menus
Other titles: English housewifery improved, or, A supplement to Moxon's cookery.
Notes: Includes index.

Signatures: a⁴ A-K⁸ L-M⁴ (D4,5 signed "D5", "D6" respectively).

The appendix has separate paging and special title page: "English housewifery improved, or, A supplement to Moxon's cookery : containing upwards of sixty modern and valuable receipts ... collected by a person of judgment, with corrections and additions. The fifth edition. Leeds: printed by Thomas Wright. MDCCLXXXV."