RAFFALD, Elizabeth.

The Experienced English Housekeeper,

for the use and ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c., wrote purely from practice ... consisting of near Nine Hundred original Receipts, most of which never appeared in Print.

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102745

London, for the author, and sold by R. Baldwin, 1786

£675

A very good copy of this popular work on cookery and housekeeping by Elizabeth Raffald, which ran to multiple editions in her lifetime including a variety of spurious pirated editions: 'She was a shrewd, tactful and strong-willed woman, with a good knowledge of French and an active concern for the poor. From her shop she ran a school of cookery and domestic economy, and what was probably the first register office for servants in Manchester.' (ODNB) 'I would recommend those of a nervous disposition avoid the chapter entitled, To ficcassee [sic] a rabbit's brain.'Elizabeth Raffald was also instrumental in establishing a second Manchester newspaper, the Prescott's Journal, in 1771, and set up the first Directory of Manchester.

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Tenth edition; 8vo; 3 folding engraved plates, two with offsetting from folding, a few recent and older marginal repairs, numerous old pencil annotations. Rebound in twentieth century half black calf, marbled paper boards. Contents a little marked and toned, spine slightly faded, a very nice copy.