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Titles in this category include household management, cookery, midwifery, etiquette etc.

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Displaying 251–275 of 463

ID Title Author Firms (City) Date Edition
2997 The compleat housewife: or, Accomplished gentlewoman’s companion. Being a collection of upwards of six 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. Stephens’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 fail’d; never before made publick; fit either for private families, or such publick-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbours. With directions for marketing. By E. Smith. The sixteenth edition, with additions. Smith , Eliza
Stanley Crowder (London)
Mary Cooper (London)
James Fletcher I [St. Paul] (London)
Charles Hitch and Lacey Hawes (London)
John Ward (London)
P. Davy and B. Law (London)
Thomas Longman II (London)
John and James Rivington (London)
Catherine Ware (London)
William Johnston [St. Paul's Churchyard] (London)
1758 The sixteenth edition, with additions.
24189 The compleat midwife's companion: or, the art of midwifry improv'd. Directing child-bearing women how to order themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children. In six books, divided into several chapters from each book. With physical prescriptions for each disease incident to the female sex, whether virgins, wives or widows: adapted chiefly for their use. The fourth edition. By Mrs. Jane Sharp, practitioner in the art of midwifry above forty years. Sharp , Jane
John Marshall [Gracechurch] (London)
1725 The fourth edition.
24736 The compleat midwife's companion: or, the art of midwifry improv'd. Directing child-bearing women how to order themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children. In six books, divided into several chapters from each book. With physical prescriptions for each disease incident to the female sex, whether virgins, wives or widows: adapted chiefly for their use. The third edition. By Mrs. Jane Sharp, practitioner in the art of midwifry above forty years. Sharp , Jane
John Marshall [Gracechurch] (London)
1724 The third edition.
24207 The compleat servant-maid: or, the young maiden's and family's daily companion. Directing them how they may fit themselves for any of these employments ; viz. waiting-woman, house keeper, chamber-maid, wet and dry nurses, house-maid, cook-maid, under-cook maid, scullery-maid, laundry-maid, dairy-maid. Whereunto is added, an appendix or supplement, containing rules and directions for writing several sorts of hands; how to learn addition and subtraction, with a multiplication-table. Also the compleat market-woman; teaching how to buy fowl, fish, flesh, &c. and to know their goodness and badness in every respect, whether young or old, new or stale, to prevent being cheated. With tables ready cast up, necessary for all servants or others to carry to market to prevent the butchers imposing on them, or for any other business. The ninth edition with large additions. Woolley , Hannah
Edward Midwinter (London)
1729 The ninth edition with large additions
22112 The compleat servant-maid: or, the young maidens tutor. Directing them how the [sic] may fit, and qualifie themselves for any of these employments. Viz. waiting-woman, ... sculery maid. Whereunto is added a supplement ... Woolley , Hannah
Ebenezer Tracy (London)
1711 Eighth edition with additions
23516 The compleat servant-maid: or, The Young Maidens Tutor. Directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any of these employments. Viz. Waiting-Woman, house-keeper. Chamber-Maid, cook-maid, under-cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid, scullery-maid. Whereunto is added a suppliment containing the choicest receipts and rarest secrets in physick and chyrurgery; also for salting and drying English hams equal to Westphalia. The compleat market-man and market-woman, in buying fowl, fish, flesh, &c. and to know their goodness or badness in every respect, to prevent being cheated. Never before printed. Seventh edition with additions. Woolley , Hannah
Ebenezer Tracy (London)
1704 Seventh edition with additions
6333 The complete British cook: Being a collection of the most valuable and useful receipts, for rendering the whole art of cookery Plain and familiar to every Capacity: containing directions for Gravies, Sauces, Roasting, Boiling, Frying, Broiling, Stewing, Hashing, Soups, Fricasees, Ragouts, Pastries, Pies, Tarts, Cakes, Puddings, Fritters, Preserves, Pickles, Syllabubs, Creams, Flummeries, Jellies, Custards, &c. &c. By Mary Holland, Professed Cook. Holland , Mary
William West and Thomas Hughes (London)
1800
4458 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, ... Also, the art of making artificial fruit, ... To which are added, some bills of fare for deserts for private families. By Mrs. H. Glass, author of The art of cookery, with considerable additions and corrections, by Maria Wilson. Glasse , Hannah
William West and Thomas Hughes (London)
1800
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
13116 The complete English cook; or Prudent housewife. Being an entire new collection of the most genteel, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewisery. Viz, roasting, boiling, stewing, ragoos, soups, sauces, fricaseys, pies, tarts, puddings, cheesecakes, custards, jelies, potting candying, collaring pickling, preserving, preserving, made wines, &c. together with the art of marketting. And directions for placing dishes on table for entertainments: adorned with proper cuts. And many other things equally necesary. The whole made easy to the meanest capacity and far me useful to young beginners than any book of the kind ever yet published. By Catharine Brooks of Red-Lyon-Street. To which is added, the physical director; being near two hundred safe and certain receipts for the cure of most disorders incident to the human body. Also the whole art of clear-starching, ironing, &c. The second edition, with the addition of a great variety of made dishes, &c. Brooks , Catharine
1767 The second edition
1710 The complete English cook; or, prudent housewife. ... By Ann Peckham, ... The fourth edition. To which is added, a supplement,... Peckham , Ann
Wilson, Spence and Mawman [High Ousegate] (York)
Thomas Wright (Leeds)
John Binns (Leeds)
William Fawdington (Leeds)
1790 The Fourth Edition. To Which Is Added, A Supplement, ...
1706 The Complete English Cook; or, Prudent Housewife. Being a collection of the most general, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery, with directions for roasting, boiling, stewing, ragoos, soups, sauces, fricassees, pies, tarts, puddings, cheese-cakes, custards, jellies, potting, candying, collaring, pickling, preserving, made wines, &c. Together with Directions for placing Dishes on Tables of Entertainment: and many other Things equally necessary. Thr whole made easy to the meanest Capacity, and far more useful to young Beginners than any Book of the Kind extant. By Ann Peckham, of Leeds, well known to have been for Forty Years one of the most noted Cookes in the Country of York. The Third Edition. To which is added, A Supplement, Containing Forty-Nine Receipts, never before printed. Peckham , Ann
Griffith Wright (Leeds)
John Binns (Leeds)
1775 The Third Edition. To Which Is Added, A Supplement, Containing Forty-Nine Receipts, Never Before Printed.
1667 The complete English cook; or, Prudent housewife. Being a collection of the most general, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery. With directions for roasting, boiling, stewing, ragoos, soops, sauces, fricassees, pies, tarts, puddings, cheese-cakes, custards, jellies, potting, candying, collaring, pickling, preserving, made wines, &c. Together with directions for placing dishes on tables of entertainment: and many other things equally necessary. The whole made easy to the meanest capacity, and far more useful to young beginners than any book of the kind extant. By Ann Peckham, of Leeds, well known to have been for forty years one of the most noted cooks in the county of York. The Fourth Edition. To Which Is Added, A Supplement, Containing Forty-Nine Receipts, Never Before Printed. Peckham , Ann
Robert Spence (York)
Thomas Wilson [London House Yard] (London)
Thomas Wright (Leeds)
1790 The Fourth Edition. To Which Is Added, A Supplement, Containing Forty-Nine Receipts, Never Before Printed.
1707 The Complete English Cook; or, Prudent housewife. Being an entire new collection of the most general, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery. With directions for roasting, boiling, stewing, ragoos, soups, sauces, fricaseys, pies, tarts, puddings, cheese-cakes, custards, jellies, potting, candying, collaring, pickling, preserving, made-wines, &c. Together with Directions for placing Dishes on Tables of Entertainment: and many other things equally necessary. The whole made easy to the meanest Capacity, and far more useful to young Beginners than ny Book of the Kind extant. By Ann Peckham, of Leeds, Who is well known to have been for Forty Years past one of the most noted Cooks in the County of York. Peckham , Ann
1767
13114 The complete English cook; or, prudent housewife. Being an entire new collection of the most genteel, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery. Viz. Roasting, Boiling, Stewing, Ragoos, Soups, Sauces, Fricaseys, Pies, Tarts, Puddings, Cheesecakes, Custards, Jellies, Potting, Candying, Collaring, Pickling, Preserving, Made Wines, &c. Together with the Art of Marketing. And Directions for placing Dishes on Table for Entertainments: Adorned with proper Cuts, and many other Things equally necessary. The Whole made easy to the meanest Capacity, and far more Useful to Young Beginners than any Book of the Kind ever yet published. By Catharine Brooks of Red-Lyon-Street. To which is added, the physical directory; Being near two Hundred safe and certain Receipts for the Cure of most Disorders incident to the Human Body. Also the whole Art of Clear-Starching, Ironing, &c. The fourth edition, with the addition of a great variety of made dishes, &c. Brooks , Catharine
1770 The fourth edition
13115 The complete English cook; or, prudent housewife. Being an entire new collection of the most genteel, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery. Viz. Roasting, Boiling, Stewing, Ragoos, Soups, Sauces, Fricaseys, Pies, Tarts, Puddings, Cheesecakes, Custards, Jellies, Potting, Candying, Collaring, Pickling, Preserving, Made Wines, &c. Together with the Art of Marketing. And Directions for placing Dishes on Table for Entertainments: Adorned with proper Cuts, and many other Things equally necessary. The Whole made easy to the meanest Capacity, and far more Useful to Young Beginners than any Book of the Kind ever yet published. By Catharine Brooks of Red-Lyon-Street. To which is added, the physical directory; Being near two Hundred safe and certain Receipts for the Cure of most Disorders incident to the Human Body. Also the whole Art of Clear-Starching, Ironing, &c. The third edition. Brooks , Catharine
1772 The third edition.
1671 The complete English cook; or, prudent housewife. Being, An entire New Collection of the most general, yet least expensive receipts in every Branch of Cookery and Good Housewifery. With directions for Roasting, Boiling, Stewing, Ragoos, Soups, Sauces, Fricaseys, Pies, Tarts, Puddings, Cheese-Cakes, Custards, Jellies, Potting, Candying, Collaring, Pickling, Preserving, Made-Wines, &c. Together with Directions for placing Dishes on Tables of Entertainment: And many other Things equally necessary. The whole made easy to the meanest Capacity, and far more useful to young Beginners than any Book of the Kind extant. By Ann Peckham, of Leeds, Who is well known to have been for Forty Years past one of the most noted Cooks in the County of York. The Second Edition. Peckham , Ann
1771 The Second Edition.
1713 The complete English cook; or, prudent housewife. Being, an entire new collection of the most general, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery. With directions for roasting, boiling, stewing, ragoos, soups, sauces, fricaseys, pies, tarts, puddings, cheese-cakes, custards, jellies, potting, candying, collaring, pickling, preserving, made-wines, &c. Together with directions for placing dishes on tables of entertainment: and many other things equally necessary. The whole made easy to the meanest capacity, and far more useful to young beginners than any book of the kind extant. By Ann Peckham, of Leeds, who is well known to have been for forty years past one of the most noted cooks in the county of York Peckham , Ann
Griffith Wright (Leeds)
John Binns (Leeds)
1773
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
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