The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, Hannah Glasse, 1803 ed.
£195.00
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An 1803 edition of 'The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy' by Hannah Glasse, a cookery book first published in 1747. Written with eighteenth century wit and elegance, this posthumously published edition is the most comprehensive and amended version of Glasse's work, the book itself being highly notable for many reasons, including the first recorded recipe using jelly in trifle, the first print record of the words 'Yorkshire Pudding' and the first English recipe for a curry.
Dimensions
H: 21cm, W: 14cm, D: 4cm
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An 1803 edition of 'The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy' by Hannah Glasse, a cookery book first published in 1747. Written with eighteenth century wit and elegance, this posthumously published edition is the most comprehensive and amended version of Glasse's work, the book itself being highly notable for many reasons, including the first recorded recipe using jelly in trifle, the first print record of the words 'Yorkshire Pudding' and the first English recipe for a curry.
Insights
Hannah Glasse (1708-1770) was the illegitimate daughter of a Northumberland land owner and his mistress, brought up in her father's home where she was taught to read and write amongst other skills that helped her to establish herself later in life. At the age of sixteen, she eloped with her thirty year old husband, and went on the produce 'The Art of Cookery' as an enterprising attempt to help alleviate their economic difficulties. The book was a success, being reprinted within its first year and several times in the following decades, allowing Glasse to set herself up as a dressmaker in Covent Garden. Today, surviving copies of her book serve as a fascinating record of the age.
Details
- GLASSE, Hannah (1708-1770)
- 'The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, Which Far Excels Any Thing of the Kind Yet Published'
- Publisher: London, J Johnson, H.L. Gardner, F.&C. Rivington et al 1803
- Internally good with intermittent spotting. Front blank inscribed 'Mary Lowe, given by her affectionate mother H. Stoppard, December 1856'.
- Estimated rebinding in the mid-19th century, 3/4 leather, light brown with darker brown boards.
- 8vo.
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