English housewifery. Exemplified in above four hundred and fifty receipts, giving directions in most parts of cookery; And how to prepare various Sorts of Soops, Made-Dishes, Pastes, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made-Wines, &c. With Cuts for the orderly placing the Dishes and Courses; also Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year; and an alphabetical Index to the Whole. A Book necessary for Mistresses of Families, higher and lower Women Servants, and confined to Things Useful, Substantial and Splendid, and calculated for the Preservation of Health, and upon the Measures of Frugality, being the Result of thirty Years Practice and Experience. By Elizabeth Moxon. With an appendix, Containing upwards of Seventy Receipts, of the most valuable Kind, (many never before printed) communicated to the Publisher by several Gentlewomen in the Neighbourhood, distinguished by their extraordinary Skill in Housewifery. The Tenth Edition, Corrected.

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Title English housewifery. Exemplified in above four hundred and fifty receipts, giving directions in most parts of cookery; And how to prepare various Sorts of Soops, Made-Dishes, Pastes, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made-Wines, &c. With Cuts for the orderly placing the Dishes and Courses; also Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year; and an alphabetical Index to the Whole. A Book necessary for Mistresses of Families, higher and lower Women Servants, and confined to Things Useful, Substantial and Splendid, and calculated for the Preservation of Health, and upon the Measures of Frugality, being the Result of thirty Years Practice and Experience. By Elizabeth Moxon. With an appendix, Containing upwards of Seventy Receipts, of the most valuable Kind, (many never before printed) communicated to the Publisher by several Gentlewomen in the Neighbourhood, distinguished by their extraordinary Skill in Housewifery. The Tenth Edition, Corrected.
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Signed Author By Elizabeth Moxon.
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Pagination iii, 203, 33
Date of Publication 1769
Edition Statement The Tenth Edition, Corrected.
Edition Number 10
Date of First Publication 1741
Imprint printed by Griffith Wright: for George Copperthwaite, bookseller in Leeds; and sold by Mr. E. Johnson, Bookseller in Ave-Mary-Lane, London; and by most Booksellers in Great-Britain
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Notes The appendix is: 'English housewifery improved; or, a supplement to Moxon's cookery. Containing Upwards of Sixty Modern and Valuable Receipts in Pastry, Preserving, Made Dishes, Made Wines, &c. &c. Collected by a Person of Judgment. With Corrections and Additions. The third edition.', 1769, which has separate title page and pagination, but continues the register.
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Moxon, Elizabeth. English housewifery. Exemplified in above four hundred and fifty receipts, giving directions in most parts of cookery; And how to prepare various Sorts of Soops, Made-Dishes, Pastes, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made-Wines, &c. With Cuts for the orderly placing the Dishes and Courses; also Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year; and an alphabetical Index to the Whole. A Book necessary for Mistresses of Families, higher and lower Women Servants, and confined to Things Useful, Substantial and Splendid, and calculated for the Preservation of Health, and upon the Measures of Frugality, being the Result of thirty Years Practice and Experience. By Elizabeth Moxon. With an appendix, Containing upwards of Seventy Receipts, of the most valuable Kind, (many never before printed) communicated to the Publisher by several Gentlewomen in the Neighbourhood, distinguished by their extraordinary Skill in Housewifery. The Tenth Edition, Corrected.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 3161, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/3161. Accessed 2024-12-22. 

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