Atkyns arabella (5 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Family Magazine: in two parts. Part I. Containing useful directions in all the branches of house-keeping and cookery. Together with the Art of Making English Wines, &c. Part II. Containing a compendious body of physick. by Arabella Atkyns [pseudonym] DESCRIPTION: London : printed for J. Osborn, at the Golden-Ball in Paternoster-Row, MDCCXLI. [1741] 2 parts in one volume, 8vo, pp xiv, [2],123,[3];[2],324, a few place settings in text, bound in contemporary polished calf, spine with raised bands. First Edition. CONDITION: spine lacking label, worn and chipped at lower foot however sound. Corners of boards slightly worn. Modern replacement endpapers, minor soiling and signs of use throughout text however still a very good sound copy, especially for a cookery book of this period. Further comments At the end of the preface our anonymous author writes 'being still teized for some name, I will, tho' not my right one, subscribe that of Arabella Atkyns. So far no one has actually pinned down her actual name, but she was clearly an amateur cook, and states that the medical portion, which is longer than the cookery was taken from the manuscript commonplace book of her brother, a physician. 'The cookery part is well arranged, the medical part is full of horrors.' - Oxford. The first of at least three printings, all quite scarce. SIZE: 205 x 130 mm. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Octavo. xiv, [ii], 123, [iii], [ii], 324pp. First edition. Part II has a separate title-page, pagination and register. Contemporary calf, repaired. Illustrated in the text. Oxford, English Cookery Books. Oxford p. 71; Maclean p. 49; Bitting p. 550; Cagle 673; Pennell p.150; Simon 658; ESTC T87836 0.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. First Edition. [2], iii-xiv, [3], 2-123pp, [3]; [2], 324pp, two parts in one. Modern full calf, raised bands, spine in six panels, leather title label to second panel, date in gilt to foot, bands with gilt double rules above and below, covers with double fillet border and fleuron corner pieces, blind rolls to edges and inner edges. Externally very good. Internally lightly browned throughout, occasional light soiling, mainly to margins, some light foxing but tolerable, small piece missing from fore edge margin of T4. Note in pen to head of title, with near contemporary previous owner's name (Alexander Riddle) to head of preface. Text in double column, with a few woodcut 'bills of fare' to text. The first part is cookery, including making English wines, the second 'medical'. The preface is signed 'Arabella Atkyns' a pseudonym, used due to "my relation to several honourable Persons, who would not be well pleased, perhaps, to see my Name in Publick, on such an Occasion" (page xiv). Bitting, page 550; Cagle 673; MacLean, page 49; Oxford, pages 71-72 (notes that while the "cookery part is well arranged, the medical part is full of horrors"); Simon BG 658 (again noting that the second part dealing with remedies, "some [are] most fantastic and some really horrible"); Wellcome II: 67 Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. London, J. Osborn, 1741. 8vo. neatly recased original full calf binding, original backstsrip relaid with new red morocco title label, xiv, title, 123, (iii), title, 324pp. some worming to bottom margin of the first part of the volume not affecting text, worming to the second part at right hand margin affecting text to a very small degree in places else a very clean tight copy embellished with six little woodcuts. B.550. M.49. O.71. S.658. The cookery section contains lengthy instructions on the purchase of all sorts of provisions and how to store them followed by several hundred receipts in cookery, pastry, pickling, confectionary (sic), distilling, brewing, cosmeticks, &c. together with the art of making English wines contains much that could be used today with little alteration. The second part being a compendious body of physick succinctly treating all the diseases and accidents incident of men, women and children is better read and not practised.…

First edition, xiv, [ii], 123, [3], [2], 324pp., part II has a separate title-page, pagination and register, without endpaper, cont. calf, rubbed, hinges cracked. "The preface is signed 'Arabella Atkyns', which the B.M. catalogue says is a pseudonym. In it she states that the medical portion, which is much larger than the cookery, is taken from a common-place book of her brother who was a physician. It may be mentioned that she is the first lady who apologizes for her boldness in venturing to treat certain maladies which a lady would hardly be expected ti include. The cookery part is well arranged, the medical part is full of horrors. The treatment for appendicitis is to 'apply a live puppy to the naked belly' and follow up with a cataplasm of rotten apples or of 'sheeps-dung boil'd with milk'."Oxford, English Cookery Books. Oxford, p.71; Maclean, p.49; Bitting, p.550; Cagle, 673; Pennell, p.150; Simon, 658.…