The universal receipt book; being a compendious repository of practical information in cookery, preserving, pickling, distilling, and all the branches of domestic economy. To which is added, some advice to farmers. By Priscilla Homespun. Second edition with great additions.

ID 17910
Title The universal receipt book; being a compendious repository of practical information in cookery, preserving, pickling, distilling, and all the branches of domestic economy. To which is added, some advice to farmers. By Priscilla Homespun. Second edition with great additions.
Contributors
Signed Author By Priscilla Homespun.
Pseudonym Priscilla Homespun
Firms
Self-published No
Volumes 1
Pagination 378
Date of Publication 1818
Edition Statement Second edition with great additions.
Edition Number 2
Date of First Publication
Imprint Published by Isaac Riley. J. Maxwell, printer.
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Copyright Statement District of Pennsylvania, to wit: Be It Remembered, that on the 2d day of October, in the forty-second year of the independence of the United States of America, A.D. 1817, Isaac Riley, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor in the words following, to wit. "The Universal Receipt Book; being a compendious repository of practical information in cooker, pre-serving, pickling, distilling, and all the branches of domestic economy. To which is added, some Advice to Farmers. By Priscilla Homespun. Second edition, with great additions." In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." David Caldwell, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.
Location of Printing Philadelphia US
Format Duodecimo (12mo)
Length (cm) 18
Width (cm)
Price (pound)
Price (shilling)
Price (pence)
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Notes AAS Notes:
Copyright Oct. 2, 1817, by Isaac Riley.
Error in paging: p. 359 misnumbered 349.
With a half-title.
Includes index.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Lowenstein, E. Bibliography of American cookery books, 1742-1860 (3rd ed.),
Rink, E. Technical Americana,
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American Antiquarian Society copy inscribed: William P. Rathbone presented by John McAllum, Augusta Oct. 5, 1820.
Hand-Verified No
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Homespun, Priscilla. The universal receipt book; being a compendious repository of practical information in cookery, preserving, pickling, distilling, and all the branches of domestic economy. To which is added, some advice to farmers. By Priscilla Homespun. Second edition with great additions.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 17910, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/17910. Accessed 2024-12-22. 

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