Northern cookery.- Thacker (John) The Art of Cookery. Containing above Six Hundred and Fifty of the most approv'd Receipts, first edition, a few woodcut illustrations in text (mostly of pie shapes), 32pp. letterpress bills of fare at end, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and a decorative initial, final advertisement f. (not called for), occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt and with red morocco label, little marked and rubbed, [Bitting p.458; Cagle 1019; Maclean pp.140-141; Oxford p.88], 8vo, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Printed by I. Thompson and Company, 1758. *** Scarce at auction. Thacker was cook to the Dean and Chapter of Durham Cathedral and opened a cookery school in the city in 1742. In his preface he apologies for inflicting yet another cookery book on the public, but justifies it by saying that many of those already in circulation fall short in their consideration of the seasonal differences in the north of England. Bills of Fare include dinners for the Grand Jury, the Justices, and the Prebendaries at Durham. 2A-2S are signed ‘A2’ – ‘S2’.Provenance: 'Kathleen Barron' (later ink inscription to head of title); The Marks Collection, sold Dominic Winter, 9th March, 2006, lot 322 (£1518).