Cook (Ann) Professed cookery: containing boiling, roasting, pastry, preserving, potting, pickling, made-wines, gellies, and part of confectionaries, second edition, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, lacking half-title, title little chipped at foot (with loss of 1 letter of imprint) and lower third laid down, some damp-staining at foot (mostly at start), spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, worn, but holding reasonably firm, [Bitting p.98; Maclean p.35; cf. Cagle 629 (first edition and note); Oxford pp.91-92 and Simon BG 383], 8vo, [Newcastle upon Tyne], Printed for the author, and sold at her house in the Groat-market, 1755.

⁂ Scarce. The opening 68pp. are a vitriolic attack on the author's arch rival Hannah Glasse and her The Art of Cookery.

Provenance: Alastair Robb-Smith (1908-2000), Oxford pathologist and bibliophile, who once delivered a lecture on Hannah Glasse to fellow bibliophiles at Balliol College (bookplate); The Simon Hall Collection of Cookery Books, sold Dominic Winter, 27th January, 2005, lot 43.