Atkyns arabella pseud (2 risultati)

Hardback. Condizione: Good. First Edition. [2], iii-xiv, [3], 2-123pp, [3]; [2], 324pp, two parts in one. Modern full calf, raised bands, spine in six panels, leather title label to second panel, date in gilt to foot, bands with gilt double rules above and below, covers with double fillet border and fleuron corner pieces, blind rolls to edges and inner edges. Externally very good. Internally lightly browned throughout, occasional light soiling, mainly to margins, some light foxing but tolerable, small piece missing from fore edge margin of T4. Note in pen to head of title, with near contemporary previous owner's name (Alexander Riddle) to head of preface. Text in double column, with a few woodcut 'bills of fare' to text. The first part is cookery, including making English wines, the second 'medical'. The preface is signed 'Arabella Atkyns' a pseudonym, used due to "my relation to several honourable Persons, who would not be well pleased, perhaps, to see my Name in Publick, on such an Occasion" (page xiv). Bitting, page 550; Cagle 673; MacLean, page 49; Oxford, pages 71-72 (notes that while the "cookery part is well arranged, the medical part is full of horrors"); Simon BG 658 (again noting that the second part dealing with remedies, "some [are] most fantastic and some really horrible"); Wellcome II: 67 Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. London, J. Osborn, 1741. 8vo. neatly recased original full calf binding, original backstsrip relaid with new red morocco title label, xiv, title, 123, (iii), title, 324pp. some worming to bottom margin of the first part of the volume not affecting text, worming to the second part at right hand margin affecting text to a very small degree in places else a very clean tight copy embellished with six little woodcuts. B.550. M.49. O.71. S.658. The cookery section contains lengthy instructions on the purchase of all sorts of provisions and how to store them followed by several hundred receipts in cookery, pastry, pickling, confectionary (sic), distilling, brewing, cosmeticks, &c. together with the art of making English wines contains much that could be used today with little alteration. The second part being a compendious body of physick succinctly treating all the diseases and accidents incident of men, women and children is better read and not practised.…