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Royal cookery, or, The complete court-cook : containing the choicest receipts in all the particular branches of cookery now in use in the Queen's palaces of St. James's, Kensington, Hampton-Court, and Windsor : with near forty figures (curiously engraven on copper) of the magnificent entertainments at coronations, instalment[s], balls, weddings, &c. at court : also receipts for making the soupes ...

Title
Royal cookery, or, The complete court-cook : containing the choicest receipts in all the particular branches of cookery now in use in the Queen's palaces of St. James's, Kensington, Hampton-Court, and Windsor : with near forty figures (curiously engraven on copper) of the magnificent entertainments at coronations, instalment[s], balls, weddings, &c. at court : also receipts for making the soupes ... / by Patrick Lamb, near 50 years master-cook to Their late Majesties King Charles II, King James II, King William and Queen Mary, and to Her present Majesty Queen Anne ; to which are added, bills of fare for every season in the year.
Author
Lamb, Patrick.
Publication
London : Printed for Abel Roper, and sold by John Morphew ..., 1710.

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Description
[16], 127, [17] p., [35] leaves of plates (25 folded) : ill.; 20 cm. (8vo)
Alternative Title
  • Complete court-cook
  • Lamb's royal cookery
Subjects
Note
  • Another issue has imprint: London : Printed for Maurice Atkins, 1710. Cf. Maclean; Cagle, W.R. A matter of taste, 809.
  • Signatures: a⁸ A-I⁸.
  • The ill. are engraved diagrams of table settings. Vicaire records 36 plates, but the list of plates on leaf a8 has only 35. Cf. also Bitting.
  • "A bill of fare for every season in the year" (caption title): p. [129-140].
  • Publisher's advertisements, with caption "Books printed for and sold by Maurice Atkins ...": p. [141-144].
Indexed In (note)
  • ESTC (RLIN)
  • Vicaire, G. Bib. gastronomique
  • Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib.
  • Maclean, V. Household and cookery books
Call Number
*KU 00-307
OCLC
  • 4744221
  • NYPGR4744221-B
Author
Lamb, Patrick.
Title
Royal cookery, or, The complete court-cook : containing the choicest receipts in all the particular branches of cookery now in use in the Queen's palaces of St. James's, Kensington, Hampton-Court, and Windsor : with near forty figures (curiously engraven on copper) of the magnificent entertainments at coronations, instalment[s], balls, weddings, &c. at court : also receipts for making the soupes ... / by Patrick Lamb, near 50 years master-cook to Their late Majesties King Charles II, King James II, King William and Queen Mary, and to Her present Majesty Queen Anne ; to which are added, bills of fare for every season in the year.
Imprint
London : Printed for Abel Roper, and sold by John Morphew ..., 1710.
Indexed In:
ESTC (RLIN) T91554
Vicaire, G. Bib. gastronomique, col. 490
Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 271
Maclean, V. Household and cookery books, p. 88
Local Note
Provenance (copy 2): Charles Bodenham (autograph).
Helen Hay Whitney Collection (copy 2).
Copy 1 lacks leaf a1 (half title).
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Local Subject
Bodenham, Charles Provenance.
Added Author
Bodenham, Charles. Former owner
Research Call Number
*KU 00-307
*KU 00-308
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