Author: Sir Henry ThompsonPublisher:
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Category : Blue and white ware
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
A Catalogue of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain
Author: Sir Henry ThompsonPublisher:
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Category : Blue and white ware
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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The Compleat Housewife
Author: Eliza SmithPublisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449428258
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
First published in England, this kitchen reference became available to colonial American housewives when it was printed in Williamsburg, Virginia is 1742. Originally published in London in 1727, The Compleat Housewife was the first cookbook printed in the United States. William Parks, a Virginia printer, printed and sold the cookbook believing there would be a strong market for it among Virginia housewives who wanted to keep up with the latest London fashions—the book was a best-seller there. Parks did make some attempt to Americanize it, deleting certain recipes “the ingredients or material for which are not to be had in this country,” but for the most part, the book was not adjusted to American kitchens. Even so, it became the first cookery best seller in the New World, and Parks’s major book publication. Author Eliza Smith described her book on the title page as “Being a collection of several hundred approved receipts, in cookery, pastry, confectionery, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials. And also bills of fare for every month of the year. To which is added, a collection of nearly two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, and many other things of sovereign and approved efficacy in most distempers, pains, aches, wounds, sores, etc. never before made publick in these parts; fit either for private families, or such public-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbours.” The recipes are easy to understand and cover everything from 50 recipes for pickling everything from nasturtium buds to pigeons to “lifting a swan, breaking a deer, and splating a pike,” indicating the importance of understanding how to prepare English game. The book also includes diagrams for positioning serving dishes to create an attractive table display.
A Treatise on the Astrolabe
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher:
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Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye
Author: Raoul LefèvrePublisher:
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Category : Troy (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
My Cookery Books
Author: Elizabeth Robins PennellPublisher:
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Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A Reprint of W. Shakespere
Author: William ShakespearePoems Before Congress
Author: Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Book History and Print Culture
Author: Sandra AlstonPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Bookman's Journal and Print Collector
Author: Wilfred PartingtonPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Catalogue of the Extensive, Important and Valuable Collection of Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters
Author: William TitePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382507307
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.