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The
British Housewife: or, The Cook, Housekeeper's and Gardiner's Companion
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Martha Bradley
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This remarkable compendium of cookery, gardening, farriery
and medicine - arranged as a monthly calendar - was published in two giant
volumes in 1758, having first been offered in 42 weekly parts in 1756 (possibly
the first cookery part-work). Martha Bradley writes supremely well; her
scheme for the education of the cook and housewife was more thorough than
any that had gone before; her recipes, though derivative, are clarity itself.
Prospect Books is publishing a facsimile edition, though the length and
costs of it determine it should be in more volumes than just two. The first
volume will contain the month of January and a long modem introduction
by the Anglo-French scholar Gilly Lehmann which ties the book to its sources
and discusses its place in eighteenth-century cookery writing. Volume II
will contain the months of February and March; further volumes will be
published, together with modern discussions of the gardening sections,
and full indexes and necessary apparatus, in ensuing months. |
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Boxed paperback set
ISBN 0 907325 63 7 £60 |
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Volume I; 200pp; 145x205mm; sewn paperback
ISBN 0 907325 66 1 £9.50 |
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Volume II; 210pp; 145x205mm; sewn paperback
ISBN 0 907325 67 X £9.50 |
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Volume III; 210pp; 145x205mm; sewn paperback
ISBN 0 907325 68 8 £9.50 |
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Volume IV; 210pp; 145x205mm; sewn paperback
ISBN 0 907325 69 6 £9.50 |
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Volume V; 250pp; 145x205mm; sewn paperback
ISBN 0 907325 84X £11.50 |
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Volume VI; 250pp; 145x205mm; sewn
paperback
ISBN 0 907325 858 £11.50 |
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