English Housewifery, Exemplified in Above Four Hundred and Fifty Reciepts, Giving Directions in Most Parts of Cookery. [WITH] English Housewifery Improved; or, a Supplement to Moxon’s Cookery.

MOXON, Elizabeth.

$450.00

Item Number: 146428

London: Printed for W. Osborne, T. Griffin, and H. Mozley, 1789.

Finely bound edition of this thorough etiquette and recipe book. Two volumes bound in one, three-quarter brown speckled calf over marbled boards with gilt titles on a morocco label and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, illustrated with a folding table and eight woodcut diagrams of table settings, two of which are folding. In very good condition with very light staining to the first few leaves, bookseller’s ticket to the front pastedown.

Elizabeth Moxon was an English writer, who has been referred to as one of "the female pioneers of English culinary writing." Her book, 'English Housewifry,' was presented as practical help for "Mistresses of Families, higher and lower Women Servants" based on Moxon's thirty years of "practice and experience." It contains numerous recipes on "soops, made-dishes, pastes, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made-wines," extensive menu plans, and instructions for 18th century style table-setting.