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Title

  • A perfect school of instructions for the officers of the mouth : shewing the whole art of a master of the household, a master carver, a master butler, a master confectioner, a master cook, a master pastryman : being a work of singular use for ladies and gentlewomen ... adorned with pictures curiously ingraven, displaying the whole arts

Names

  • Rose, Giles.
  • Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • London : Printed for R. Bentley and M. Magnes ..., 1682.

Headings

  • -  Cooking--Early works to 1800
  • -  Household employees--Early works to 1800

Genre

  • Cookbooks

Notes

  • -  Signatures: A-2A¹² 2B⁶.
  • -  A translation of L'ecole parfaite des officiers de bouches. Cf. Bitting.
  • -  Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 407
  • -  Pennell, E.R. My cookery books, p. 141
  • -  Wing (2nd ed.) 1933
  • -  ESTC R30134
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
  • -  LC copy has inscription: Willm. Wilson's, the 7th Septem. 1789.
  • -  LAC tnb 2019-03-04 no edits (1 card)

Medium

  • [24], 563, [1] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 16 cm. (8vo)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • TX705 .R6

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 65059773

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Rose, Giles, and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection. A Perfect School of Instructions for the Officers of the Mouth: Shewing the Whole Art of a Master of the Household, a Master Carver, a Master Butler, a Master Confectioner, a Master Cook, a Master Pastryman: Being a Work of Singular Use for Ladies and Gentlewomen ... Adorned With Pictures Curiously Ingraven, Displaying the Whole Arts. London: Printed for R. Bentley and M. Magnes, 1682. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/65059773/.

APA citation style:

Rose, G. & Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection. (1682) A Perfect School of Instructions for the Officers of the Mouth: Shewing the Whole Art of a Master of the Household, a Master Carver, a Master Butler, a Master Confectioner, a Master Cook, a Master Pastryman: Being a Work of Singular Use for Ladies and Gentlewomen ... Adorned With Pictures Curiously Ingraven, Displaying the Whole Arts. London: Printed for R. Bentley and M. Magnes. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/65059773/.

MLA citation style:

Rose, Giles, and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection. A Perfect School of Instructions for the Officers of the Mouth: Shewing the Whole Art of a Master of the Household, a Master Carver, a Master Butler, a Master Confectioner, a Master Cook, a Master Pastryman: Being a Work of Singular Use for Ladies and Gentlewomen ... Adorned With Pictures Curiously Ingraven, Displaying the Whole Arts. London: Printed for R. Bentley and M. Magnes, 1682. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/65059773/>.