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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

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Type of record: Book

Title: 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

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Classmark: Cookery A/FAR

Creator(s): Farley, John

Additional creator(s): Johnson, Richard (1793) (Other)

Related people: Johnson, Richard

Publisher: 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

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1789

Language: English

Size and medium: [32], 455, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/256309

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016321479705181

Collection group(s): Cookery Collection

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"Books printed for Scatcherd and Whitaker, no. 12, Ave-Maria-Lane": p. [1] at the end.


Also attributed to Richard Johnson: see 'The Library' 5th ser., IV.i, 54-55 (June 1949).

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Plates bound at end

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