Ladies delight (The): or Cook-maids best instructor: containing the best and most approved receipts for roasting and boiling every thing necessary to be sent to table...and the art of making British wines in the utmost perfection, woodcut head-piece, 4pp. 'A catalogue of Chapmens Books' at end, also a final f. of advertisements for Woodgate not called for by ESTC, title with repaired paper flaw within text, with loss of several letters, and with upper corner repaired, A2 upper corner repaired just touching the head-piece recto (with minor loss) and the odd letter verso (without loss), D6 small hole, with loss of 2 letters verso, but without loss of sense, D7 torn at foot, with loss of 1 letter of text and catchword, but no loss of sense, some spotting / light foxing, occasional staining, lightly browned, antique style calf, spine gilt, [Maclean p.87; Oxford p.104, both giving a date of c.1770], 12mo, Printed for Henry Woodgate and Samuel Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Pater-noster-row, 1759.

⁂ Rare. ESTC and WorldCat locate only three copies between them (LSE, Harvard and Smith College). At auction we can trace only two copies (Shircliffe, 1954 and Cetus, 2011). The copy Oxford had seen lacked title.