JOHNSON, Madam [Mary (active 1753 - 1772) compiler]
Madame Johnson's Present: or, the best instructions for young women in useful and universal knowledge. Digested under the following heads: I. The young woman's guide to letters and knowledge. II. The compleat market-woman. III. The cook's guide for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish. IV. For pickling, pastry and confectionary. V. An estimate of the expences of a family in the middling station of life. VI. The art and terms of carving fish, fowl, and flesh. VII. A bill of fare for every month in the year for dinner and supper, and also for extraordinary occasions. VIII. The young woman's instructor for the right spelling of words used in marketting, preserving , &c. With several useful tables, being the compleatest book of the kind ever published.
London : Printed for H Owen, at the Britannia-Printing-Office, in White Friers, Fleet-street, 1759. Second edition, first published 1754¹. Price sewn, 1/3. bound 1/6.
Duodecimo (160x100mm) contemporary stiff "antique spot" marbled paper wrappers, title-page printed in red and black, flush cut edges, rounded corners iv,192, [14]pp : [A]², B - R⁶, S⁶(- s4-s6),T4. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Armorial bookplate of "Fanny Bridges" to the front pastedown; wrappers lightly scuffed, corners chipped; closed tears to L1 and L2; lacks three leaves in the index; edges agetoned; faint occasional foxing; two contemporary handwritten page markers for "raspberry vinegar" laid in.
Sachgebiete: Kochbücher, Hauswirtschaft, Gastronomie
01.09.2026 - 15:30
4600,- EUR
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