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The director, or, Young woman's best companion : being the plainest and cheapest of the kind ever yet publish'd : the whole makes a compleat family cook and physician : containing above three hundred easy receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, candying, pickling, collaring, physick, and surgery ... with a complete index to the whole : a book necessary for all families

Title: The director, or, Young woman's best companion : being the plainest and cheapest of the kind ever yet publish'd : the whole makes a compleat family cook and physician : containing above three hundred easy receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, candying, pickling, collaring, physick, and surgery ... with a complete index to the whole : a book necessary for all families / by Sarah Jackson ; collected for the use of her own family and printed at the request of her friends.
Author: Jackson, Sarah, active 1754.
Publication: London : Printed for S. Crowder and H. Woodgate ..., 1755 (12mo)

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Description

[2], 131, [17] p. : ill.; 17 cm. (12mo)

Alternative Title

Director
Young woman's best companion

Subjects

Note

"Not in any other book extant: Dr. Mead's account of a person bit by a mad dog, and his infallible cure; the Negro Caesar's cure for poison, and likewise for the bite of a rattle-snake."
Original edition published 1754. ESTC T1171 gives imprint as: London : Printed for J. Fuller, at his circulating-library, and S. Neale, at Chatham, 1754. Cagle, W.R. A matter of taste, 775, gives imprint as: London : Printed for S. Crowder and H. Woodgate ... J. Fuller in Butcher-Hall-Lan ... and J. Neale, bookseller, at Chatham.
Signatures: [A1] B-M⁶ a-b⁴.
The ill. are diagrams of table settings (p. 125-131).
Woodcut headpiece.
Tables for calculating prices of goods by weight: p. [1-17] (3rd group).
Publisher's advertisements: p. [18] (3rd group).

Indexed In (note)

ESTC (RLIN)
Maclean, V. Household and cookery books

Call Number

*KU 00-301

OCLC

2803563
NYPGR2803563-B

Author

Jackson, Sarah, active 1754.

Title

The director, or, Young woman's best companion : being the plainest and cheapest of the kind ever yet publish'd : the whole makes a compleat family cook and physician : containing above three hundred easy receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, candying, pickling, collaring, physick, and surgery ... with a complete index to the whole : a book necessary for all families / by Sarah Jackson ; collected for the use of her own family and printed at the request of her friends.

Imprint

London : Printed for S. Crowder and H. Woodgate ..., 1755 (12mo)

Edition

The second edition / corrected and greatly improv'd by the author ...

Indexed In:

ESTC (RLIN) T128239

Maclean, V. Household and cookery books, p. 74

Local Note

Binding: Contemporary sheep.

Provenance: Ann Bennicke (autographs, 1819); John Hodgkin (book label).

Helen Hay Whitney Collection.

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Local Subject

Bennicke, Ann Provenance.

Hodgkin, John Provenance.

Added Author

Bennicke, Ann. Former owner

Hodgkin, John. Former owner

Research Call Number

*KU 00-301

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