The modern cook: containing instructions for preparing and ordering publick entertainments for the tables of princes, ambassadors, noblemen, and magistrates. As also the least expensive methods of providing for private families, in a very elegant manner. New receipts for dressing of meat, fowl, and fish; and making ragoûts fricassées, and pastry of all sorts, in a method, never before publish'd. Adorn'd with copperplates, exhibiting the order of placing the different dishes, &c. on the table, in the most polite way / by Vincent La Chapelle.

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The modern cook: containing instructions for preparing and ordering publick entertainments for the tables of princes, ambassadors, noblemen, and magistrates. As also the least expensive methods of providing for private families, in a very elegant manner. New receipts for dressing of meat, fowl, and fish; and making ragoûts fricassées, and pastry of all sorts, in a method, never before publish'd. Adorn'd with copperplates, exhibiting the order of placing the different dishes, &c. on the table, in the most polite way / by Vincent La Chapelle. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Publication/Creation

London : Printed for T. Osborne, 1736.

Physical description

3 volumes, folded plates : illustrations, folded frontispiece ; (8vo)

Edition

3rd ed.

References note

ESTC N5050

Notes

The plates are accompanied by leaves with descriptive letterpress
Bookplates of former owner
Mary Reynolds gift plates laid in.

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  • Vol. 3 only

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  • Vol. 3

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