Kidder (Edward) E. Kidder's Receipts of Pastry and Cookery for the Use of His Scholars. Who Teaches at His School in Queen Street near St. Thomas Apostles, on Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays, in the Afternoon. Also on Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays, in the Afternoon, at His School next to Furnivals Inn in Holborn. Ladies may be taught at their own houses, engraved throughout on rectos only, portrait frontispiece of Kidder in a wig by Robert Sheppard, title, 40 ff. of receipts, a f. of bills of fare and an index f. (totalling 42 text ff.), 8 plates of pies and tarts, of which 3 folding, some foxing and staining, spotting, lightly browned, contemporary panelled calf, spine in compartments, upper joint split, but holding, lower joint starting, edges worn, little stained, rubbed, [Bitting pp.258-259; Cagle 793; Maclean p.82-84; Oxford p.71 (earlier issue); Simon BG 907 (earlier issue); Vicaire 475], 8vo, [London], no printer, [c.1720-1725].


⁂ Second issue, with the Queen Street address (earlier issue with 'St. Martins le grand'); additional text added to leaves F2 and H1 resulting in the final line of text on both leaves being on the same level as the alphabetical numbering system; a different index leaf (without 'fins' at foot and with the alphabetical numbering system to the inner margin); with leaf K2; and with plate of 'Lamb pastey' and 'Wilde Boar Pye'. The title page is essentially an advertisement for this pastry chef's cookery school.

Provenance: 'Susanna Searle. April ye 20. 1744' (ink inscription to loose front free endpaper).