The London art of cookery, and housekeeper's complete assistant : On a new plan. Made plain and easy to the understanding of every housekeeper, cook, and servant in the kingdom. ... To which is added, an appendix, containing considerations on culinary poisons; directions for making broths, &c. for the sick; a list of things in season in the different months of the year; marketing tables, &c. &c. Embellished with a head of the author, and a bill of fare for every month in the year, elegantly engraved on thirteen copper-plates / By John Farley, principal cook at the London Tavern.

  • Farley, John, active 18th century.
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1792
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The London art of cookery, and housekeeper's complete assistant : On a new plan. Made plain and easy to the understanding of every housekeeper, cook, and servant in the kingdom. ... To which is added, an appendix, containing considerations on culinary poisons; directions for making broths, &c. for the sick; a list of things in season in the different months of the year; marketing tables, &c. &c. Embellished with a head of the author, and a bill of fare for every month in the year, elegantly engraved on thirteen copper-plates / By John Farley, principal cook at the London Tavern. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, no 12, B. Law, no 13, Ave-Maria Lane; and G. and T. Wilkie, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1792.

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vi, 26 unnumbered pages, 467 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : plates, illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm ; 8vo

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The seventh edition, with the addition of near two hundred new and elegant receipts in the various branches of cookery.

Notes

"Books printed for Scatcherd and Whitaker, no. 12, Ave-Maria-Lane": pp. [1-3] at the end
Also attributed to Richard Johnson: see 'The Library' 5th ser., IV.i, 54-55 (June 1949)

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