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    • Cook (Ann) Professed cookery: containing boiling, roasting, pastry, preserving, pickling, potting, made-wines, gellies, and part of confectionaries, third edition, Printed for & sold by the author, at …
      Jun. 23, 2022

      Cook (Ann) Professed cookery: containing boiling, roasting, pastry, preserving, pickling, potting, made-wines, gellies, and part of confectionaries, third edition, Printed for & sold by the author, at …

      Est: £400 - £600

      Cook (Ann) Professed cookery: containing boiling, roasting, pastry, preserving, pickling, potting, made-wines, gellies, and part of confectionaries. With an essay upon the lady's art of cookery: together with a plan of house-keeping, third edition, pen trials to front pastedown, a few ff. (including title) with ink scribbles in text, but with text legible, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary sheep, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Bitting p.98 (note); Cagle 629 (note); Maclean p.35; Oxford p.91; Simon BG 383], 8vo, Printed for and sold by the author, at her lodgings, in Mr. Moor's, cabinet-maker, Fuller's Rents, Holborn, [c.1760]. ⁂ Rare edition in commerce. Maclean lists a preceding Newcastle third edition of 1760. We find an auction record that describes a half-title, however ESTC does not call for this.

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    • Cook (Ann) Professed cookery: containing boiling, roasting, pastry, preserving, potting, pickling, made-wines, gellies, and part of confectionaries, scarce second edition, [Newcastle], Printed for the …
      Jun. 23, 2022

      Cook (Ann) Professed cookery: containing boiling, roasting, pastry, preserving, potting, pickling, made-wines, gellies, and part of confectionaries, scarce second edition, [Newcastle], Printed for the …

      Est: £200 - £300

      Cook (Ann) Professed cookery: containing boiling, roasting, pastry, preserving, potting, pickling, made-wines, gellies, and part of confectionaries, second edition, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, lacking half-title, title little chipped at foot (with loss of 1 letter of imprint) and lower third laid down, some damp-staining at foot (mostly at start), spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, worn, but holding reasonably firm, [Bitting p.98; Maclean p.35; cf. Cagle 629 (first edition and note); Oxford pp.91-92 and Simon BG 383], 8vo, [Newcastle upon Tyne], Printed for the author, and sold at her house in the Groat-market, 1755. ⁂ Scarce. The opening 68pp. are a vitriolic attack on the author's arch rival Hannah Glasse and her The Art of Cookery. Provenance: Alastair Robb-Smith (1908-2000), Oxford pathologist and bibliophile, who once delivered a lecture on Hannah Glasse to fellow bibliophiles at Balliol College (bookplate); The Simon Hall Collection of Cookery Books, sold Dominic Winter, 27th January, 2005, lot 43.

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    • Ann Cook (late 20th century), Early Autumn on the
      Oct. 06, 2010

      Ann Cook (late 20th century), Early Autumn on the

      Est: £50 - £80

      Ann Cook (late 20th century), Early Autumn on the Moor, oil on canvasboard, signed with monogram, 51cm x 75cm.

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