THE ART OF COOKERY made plain and easy; which far exceeds any thing of the kind yet published....To which are added, one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts. And also fifty receipts for different articles of perfumery. With a copious index... by GLASSE, Mrs. (Hannah Glasse, 1708-70) - 1788

London: R. Baldwin, and others. 1788. Hardcover. "A new edition, with all the modern improvements; and also the order of a bill of fare for each month, in the manner the dishes are to placed upon the table, in the present taste." Octavo, leaf height 21 cm. pp (2), vi, (20, Contents), 409, [1], (25, Index), [1] + folding table at p. 1 + binder's blank front and rear. Facsimile author signature on p.1, as issued. Recently rebound in full tan calf, spine with red morocco label, gilt rules to raised bands, date at foot. Page edges tanned; two inch tear at bottom of folding table neatly repaired on blank side; in all, externally fine, internally near fine, with only occasional minor foxing. Collated complete. A very nice clean copy of the most famous 18th century English cookbook. Cagle 695-706, not listing the 1788 printing. First published in 1747, it went through numerous printings and revisions .