Taylor (E.) The Lady's, housewife's, and cookmaid's assistant: or, the art of cookery explained and adapted to the meanest capacity, first edition, list of subscribers, 4pp. typographic bills of fare and marketing tables at end, lacking first f. of subscriber's list (A2), printed date erased from foot of title, B3 short tear / printing flaw at outer margin, with loss of a few letters, but no loss of sense of text, some spotting or staining, lightly browned, contemporary sheep, gilt spine in compartments and with later (to style) red leather label (chipped), head of spine and 1 upper corner worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Bitting p.457; Maclean p.140; Oxford p.100], 12mo, Berwick upon Tweed, Printed by H. Taylor, for R. Taylor, bookseller, 1769.

⁂ Rare. We can trace only one copy at auction (Hroar Dege Collection, Sotheby's, 2005, part of lot 272, and again Sotheby's Books for Cooks, 2010, lot 64).