The Experienced English Housekeeper,

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.

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.

Maclean p. 121; Bitting p. 378; Oxford pp. 98-99