Lot 193 , Raffald, Elizabeth - The Experienced House-Keeper, for the use and ease of Ladies, House-Keepers, Cooks &c. Wrote purely from practice. 1st edition, signed by the author at head of A1, as usual [for copyright reasons], 8

° Raffald, Elizabeth - The Experienced House-Keeper, for the use and ease of Ladies, House-Keepers, Cooks &c. Wrote purely from practice. 1st edition, signed by the author at head of A1, as usual [for copyright reasons], 8vo, rebound in morocco-backed marbled boards, with 2 folding engraved bills of fare, printed by J. Harrop, for the author, Manchester, 1769 Footnote: Mrs. Raffald spent fifteen years as housekeeper to Lady Elizabeth Warburton (to whom the work is dedicated), married the gardener, opened a confectioner’s shop in Manchester and set up a cookery school. She went on the have fifteen daughters, run two inns, found Salford’s first newspaper, establish a registry office for servants and compile Manchester’s first Directory.
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Condition:
good copy, text decorations, e/ps and front / back blanks replaced, pp.245/46 piece torn away at top fore-edge corner, with loss of page nos. and p.245 loss of last words of first 4 lines; p.246 loss of first words of first 6 lines (see photo) pagination - (4), iii, 362 and XIPP. Author's signature head of chap.1 (as called for) and photo pp.245/46

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