Name Octavo
Abbreviation 8vo
Description

Each sheet is folded to make eight leaves and sixteen pages. 

Titles

Displaying 2601–2625 of 3724

ID Title Author Firms (City) Date Edition
4467 The complete confectioner; or, housekeeper's guide: to a simple and speedy method of understanding the whole art of confectionary; the various ways of preserving and candying, dry and liquid, All Kinds of Fruit, Nuts, Flowers, Herbs, &c. And the Method of keeping them Fresh And Fine All The Year Round; The Different Ways Of Clarifying Sugar; With Directions for making Fruit Pastes, Bomboons, Pastils, Compotes, Fruit Ices, Cream Ices, Marmalades, Jellies, Jams, Cakes, Puffs, Biscuits, Tarts, Custards, Cheesecakes, Sweetmeats, Fritters, Creams, Syllabubs, Blanc-Mange, Flummeries, Ornaments for grand Entertainments, Dragees, Syrups of all Kinds, Nicknacks and Trifles for Desserts, Strong Cordials, Oils, Simple Waters, Milk Punch that will keep 20 Years, and All Sorts of English Wines. Also, the art of making artificial fruit, With the Stalks in it, so as to resemble the natural Fruit. To which are added, some bills of fare for desserts for private families. By Mrs. H. Glass, author of The Art of Cookery, with considerable additions and corrections, by Maria Wilson. Glasse , Hannah
Wilson , Maria
1800
4453 The complete confectioner: or the whole art of confectionary made plain and easy. Shewing The various Methods of Preserving and Candying, both dry and liquid, All Kinds of Fruit, Flowers, and Herbs; The different Ways of Clarifying Sugar; And the Method of Keeping Fruit, Nuts, and Flowers, Fresh and Fine All the Year Round. Also Directions for making Rock-Works and Candies, Biscuits, Rich Cakes, Creams and Ice Creams, Custards, Jellies, Blomonge Whip Syllabubs, and Cheese-Cakes of all Sorts, Sweetmeats, English Wines of all Sorts, Strong Cordials, Simple Waters, Mead, Oils, &c. Syrups of all Kinds, Milk Punch that will keep twenty Years, Knicknacks and Trifles for Deserts, &c. &c. &c. Likewise The Art of making Artificial Fruit, With the Stalks in it, so as to resemble the natural Fruit. To which are added, some bills of fare for deserts for private families. By H. Glasse, Author of the Art of Cookery. Glasse , Hannah
John Cooke [Oxford] (Oxford)
1770
6402 The complete house-keeper, and professed cook. Calculated for the greater ease and assistance of ladies, house-keepers, cooks, &c. &c. Containing upwards of seven hundred practical and approved receipts, arranged under the following heads: I. Rules for marketing. II. Boiling, roasting, and broiling flesh, fish, and fowls; and for making soups and sauces of all kinds. III. Making made dishes of all sorts, puddings, pies, cakes, fritters, &c. IV. Pickling, preservaing, and making wines in the best manner and taste. V. Potting and collaring; aspikes in jellies; favoury cakes, blamonge, ice creams and other creams, whips, jellies, &c. VI. Bills of fare for every month in the year; with a correct list of every thing in season for every month; illustrated with two elegant copper-plates of a first and second course for a genteel [sic] table. A new edition, with considerable additions and improvements. By Mary Smith, late house-keeper to Sir Walter Blackett, bart. and formerly in the service of the Right Hon. Lord Anson, Sir Thomas Sebright, bart. and other families of distinction, as house-keeper and cook. Smith , Mary
George, George, John and James Robinson (London)
Solomon Hodgson (Newcastle upon Tyne)
1786
6441 The complete house-keeper, and professed cook. Calculated for the greater ease and assistance of ladies, house-keepers, cooks, &c. &c. Containing upwards of Seven Hundred practical and approved Receipts, under the following Heads: I. Rules for Marketing. II. Boiling, Roasting, and Broiling Flesh, Fish, and Fowls; and for making Soups and Sauces of all Kinds. III. Making made Dishes of all Sorts, Puddings, Pies, Cakes, Fritters, &c. IV. Pickling, Preserving, and making Wines in the best Manner and Taste. V. Potting and Collaring: Aspikes in Jellies: savoury Cakes, Blamonge, Ice Creams and other Creams, Whips, Jellies, &c. VI. Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year; with a correct List of every Thing in Season for every Month; illustrated with two elegant Copper-Plates of a First and Second Course for a genteel Table. By Mary Smith, Late House-Keeper to Sir Walter Blackett, Bart. and formerly in the Service of the Right Hon. Lord Anson, Sir The Sebright, Bart. and other Families of Distinction, as House-Keeper and Cook. Smith , Mary
1772
2993 The complete housewife: or, accomplished gentlewoman's companion. Being a collection of upwards of seven hundred of the most approved receipts ... By E. Smith. The seventeenth edition, with additions. Smith , Eliza
James Buckland [The Buck] (London)
Robert Baldwin I (London)
John Rivington I (London)
William Johnston [Ludgate Street] (London)
Henry Woodfall II (London)
1765 The seventeenth edition, with additions.
2982 The complete housewife: or, accomplished gentlewoman's companion. Being a collection of upwards of seven hundred of the most approved receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Potting, Collaring, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Custards, Creams. Preserves, Conserves, Syrups, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials, Distilling, Brewing. With copper plates, curiously engraven, for the regular Disposition or Placing of the various Dishes and Courses. and also, bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. To which is added, A Collection of above Three Hundred Receipts of Medicines, consisting of Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, &c. which, after many Years Experience, have been proved to be innocent in their Application, and most salutary in their Use. with Directions for marketing. By E. Smith. The eighteenth edition, with additions. Smith , Eliza
Stanley Crowder (London)
Samuel Bladon [Paper Mill, Paternoster Row] (London)
William Nicoll (London)
Thomas Lowndes [77 Fleet Street] (London)
Bedwell Law [13 Ave Maria Lane, 1767-1790, 1794-1795] (London)
William Johnston [Ludgate Street] (London)
Thomas Longman II (London)
William Clarke and Robert Collins (London)
Robert Hawes (London)
Catherine and Richard Ware (London)
John Hinton [Paternoster Row] (London)
James Buckland [57 Paternoster] (London)
John and Francis Rivington (London)
1773 The eighteenth edition, with additions.
2975 The complete housewife: or, accomplished gentlewoman’s companion. Being a collection of upwards of seven hundred of the most approved receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials. With Copper Plates, curiously engraven, for the regular Disposition or Placing of the various Dishes and Courses. And Also, Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. To which is added, A Collection of above Three Hundred Family Receipts of Medicines; viz. Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, and various other Things of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, &c. particularly Mrs. Stevens’s Medicine for the Cure of the Stone and Gravel, and Dr. Mead’s famous Receipt for the Cure of a Bite of a mad Dog; with several other excellent Receipts for the same, which have cured when the Persons were disordered, and the salt Water failed; never before made public; fit either for private Families, or such public-spirited Gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor Neighbours. With Directions for Marketing. By E. Smith. The seventeenth edition, with additions. Smith , Eliza
Samuel Bladon [Paper Mill, Paternoster Row] (London)
William Nicoll (London)
James Buckland [The Buck] (London)
Robert Baldwin I (London)
Bedwell Law [13 Ave Maria Lane, 1767-1790, 1794-1795] (London)
William Johnston [Ludgate Street] (London)
Charles and John Rivington (London)
Henry Woodfall II (London)
Thomas Longman II (London)
Catherine and Richard Ware (London)
Thomas Lowndes [Fleet Street] (London)
1766 The seventeenth edition, with additions.
6755 The complete servant maid; containing all that is necessary to be known to be qualified for the following places, viz. ladies maid, housekeeper, chamber maid, ... scullery maid. Also, the best instructions to qualify a young woman for any common service, ... By Mrs. Wilkinson, ... Wilkinson , Mrs.
John Coote (London)
1758
2142 The complete servant maid: or young woman's best companion. Containing full, plain, and easy directions for qualifying them for service in general, but more especially for the Places of Lady's Woman, Housekeeper, Chambermaid, Nursery Maid, Housemaid, Laundry Maid, Cook Maid, Kitchen, or Scullery Maid, Dairy Maid. To which are added, Useful Instructions for discharging the Duties of each Character, with Reputation to themselves, and Satisfaction to their Employers. Including A Variety of useful Receipts (proper to be known by all Young Persons) particularly for cleaning Household Furniture, Silks, Laces, Gold, Silver, Wearing Apparel, &c. &c. By Mrs. Anne Barker, Who having for many Years discharged the Office of Housekeeper in the most respectable Families, wishes to communicate her Experience to those of her own Sex, whose Circumstances oblige them to live in Servitude. Barker , Anne
John Cooke [Oxford] (Oxford)
1770
25636 The conduct and doctrine of the Reverend Mr. Whitefield, vindicated, from the aspersions, and malicious invectives of his enemies. Humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Publick. Unknown ,
Anne Dodd I (London)
Anne Dodd II (London)
1739
25681 The conduct and scandalous behaviour of the porters in Exchange Alley. To which is added, the heads of a remarkable trial at a Travest Sessions at Guildhall, London, on the twentieth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine. By a Society of twenty impartial inquirers. Unknown ,
Anne Dodd II (London)
1750?
14855 The conduct of his Grace the D. of Ormonde, in the campaign of 1712. Manley , Delarivier
John Morphew (London)
1715
14856 The conduct of His Grace the Duke of Ormond, in the campaign 1712. Under Her Late Majesty Queen Anne. I. His Grace undertook the Command of the Army in Flanders, with a fixed Resolution to fight the French. II. Copies of several Letters that pass’d between his Grace and Mr. Secretary St John; also between Marshal Villars and his Grace. III. The Substance of several Conferences and Conversations between his Grace, Prince Eugene, and the Generals and Deputies of their High Mightinesses the States and others of the Allies. IV. The Difficulties he labour’d under in obeying the Queen’s Orders to forbear Hostilities, and of secreting those Orders from the Knowledge of the Generals of the Allies. V. Some curious Anecdotes relating to the Separate Peace then carrying on betwixt the Courts of France and England. To which is prefix’d, A prefatory epistle, humbly addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield. In which a Parallel is drawn betwixt the Management of that War and of the present; and an Argument to prove, that an indifferent Peace is preferable even to a Successful War. Manley , Delarivier
W. Webb (London)
1748
14858 The conduct of His Grace the Duke of Ormonde, in the campaign 1712. The third edition. Manley , Delarivier
John Morphew (London)
1715 The third edition.
5271 The conduct of the King of Prussia and General Dumourier, investigated by Lady Wallace. Wallace , Eglantine
John Debrett [178 Piccadilly] (London)
1793
5490 The conduct of the King of Prussia and General Dumourier, investigated by Lady Wallace. Second edition. Wallace , Eglantine
John Debrett [179 Piccadilly] (London)
1793 Second edition.
5362 The conduct of the King of Prussia and General Dumourier, investigated, by Lady Wallace. The third edition. Wallace , Eglantine
Joseph Bell (London)
1794 The third edition.
25228 The conduct of the Reverend Dr. White Kennett, Dean of Peterborough. from the year 1681, to the present time. Collected from his own writings. Being a very proper supplement to his Three letters to the Bishop of Carlisle, upon the subject of Bishop Merks. By an impartial hand. Unknown ,
Anne Dodd I (London)
1717 The Second Edition, with Additions
24683 The confession, declaration, dying warning and advice of Patience Sampson, alias Patience Boston, who was executed at York, July 24th. 1735 for the murder of Benjamin Trot of Falmouth in Casco Bay, a child of about eight years of age, which she drowned in a well, July 9th. 1734, and went immediately and accused her self before one of His Majesty's justices of the peace, continuing her self-accusation from first to last; even on her trial; standing to it also from her condemnation, to the very time of her execution. Boston , Patience
1735
2774 The confessions of the Countess of Strathmore; written by herself. Carefully copied from the original, lodged in Doctor's Commons. Bowes , Mary Eleanor
William Locke [Red Lion Street] (Holborn)
1793
22859 The conquest of the golden fleece. An opera. As perform'd at the Theatre Royal in the Hay-Market. Composed by John Baptist Pescetti. Cori , Angelo Maria.
1738
25612 The consequences of trade, as to the wealth and strength of any nation; of the woollen trade in particular, and the great Superiority of it over all other Branches of Trade. The present State of it in England and France, with an Account of our Loss and their Gains. The Danger we are in of becoming a Province to France, unless an Effectual and Immediate Stop be put to the Exportation of our Wool. With A Narrative of the Steps taken by Mr. Webber, for getting an Act of Parliament to confirm a Charter granted him by his Majesty nine Years ago, for an Universal Registry in Charter. By a draper of London. The Fifth Edition. Webster , William
1741 The Fifth Edition.
26153 The conspiracy of the Spaniards against the republick of Venice. Translated from the French. de Saint-Réal , M. l'abbé César Vichard
Thomas Harbin (London)
Mary Turner (London)
Sarah Popping (London)
1719
26152 The conspiracy of the Spaniards against the republick of Venice. Translated from the French. The second edition. de Saint-Réal , M. l'abbé César Vichard
Thomas Harbin (London)
Mary Turner (London)
Sarah Popping (London)
1719 The second edition.
25695 The contest: being poetical essays on the Queen's grotto: wrote in consequence of an invitation in the Gentlemen's Magazine for April, 1733 Wherein was Proposed, That the author of the Best Piece be Entitled to a Volume for that Year, Royal Paper, and finely bound in Morocco; and the Author of the Second Best, to a Volume Common Paper. To These are added, The gift of Pallas, and the lover's webb, Two poems on the Fine Piece of Linen made in Ireland, and presented by the Trustees of the Linen Manufacture to the Princess Royal. Also An Epithalamivm On the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Orange. Unknown ,
1734