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Lot 144
[COOKING] M. H. [=perhaps maiden name of TILLINGHAST, MARY?]. The young cooks monitor: or, directions for cookery and distillin...
London: Printed for the author at her house in Lime-Street, 1690. Stated second edition. Bound with: Rare and excellent receipts. Experienc'd, and taught by Mrs. Mary Tillinghast. And now printed for the use of her scholars only. London: 1690. Two works in one volume, modern sheep, all edges sprinkled red. 5 5/8 x 3 1/8 inches (14 x 8 cm); [iv], 9-160 pp. (ending with finis); [ii], 30, [iv] pp. index for the first work; the first A^(2) B-K^(8) L^(4); A-B^(8); [chi^(2)]. Spotted and browned, some staining, the title of the first work reinforced at gutter; marginal tears restored; worming affecting a few letters, the lower margin of the second work cropped just into text (not impacting legibility) at the lower margin. The second work bears a 1691 inscription by Amy Wisley, perhaps one of Tillinghast's "schollars."; there are the bookplates of John Bostock, M.D., Edward Hailstone and Claudia Q. Murphy.
A delightful work, with several medical recipes as well as instruction on cooking and wine-making. Stewed carp, dressed pullets and forcemeat begin the first volume; the second commences with a selection of pastry recipes, including puff-pastry, and is devoted to pies, an area of culinary endeavor not covered by the first work.
The pagination is as the ESTC copy in regard to the four-page hiatus after the introductory matter (we believe that the contents leaves, which certainly do not belong to the second work where they are presently bound, were originally located before the main text and are properly A3 and A4 in the first work, i.e. pp. 5-8, but they are unsigned and unnumbered, so this is partially conjectural). The collation does differ from ESTC, which notes "three contents leaves (quire L), followed by a caption title: "An appendix to the young cook's monitor," but in our copy quire L is all receipts and the continuation (if continuation it is) is the separately paginated and quired book, whereas ESTC notes the pagination running continuously to p. 180 (in the previously noted appendix). These works are almost vanishingly rare; we note only one example (likely this) at auction (Sotheby's June 14, 1993, lot 113, $800) in the past fifty years or more, clearly subsequently rebound (the Sotheby's catalogue slip is laid into the copy and matches otherwise). ESTC notes only five copies of the two works, two in the U.S; of the second three copies, none in the U.S. For the first work, ESTC R218608, Wing (2nd ed.), H96 [but probably an unrecorded variant]; for the second work ESTC R221736, Wing (2nd ed., 1994), T1183
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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