Collingwood (Francis) and John Woollams. The Universal cook, and city and country housekeeper. Containing all the various branches of cookery, first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece with oval portraits of the authors, 12 bills of fare, and a plate of carving, the odd small marginal chip(s), spotting and staining, lightly browned, 20th century vellum-backed marbled boards, ms. title in black to head of spine, [Bitting pp.94-95 (note) ; Cagle 625; Maclean pp.30-31; Oxford pp.120-121; Simon BG 365 (note)], 8vo, Printed by R. Noble, for J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, No. 12, Ave-Maria-Lane, 1792. *** Scarce at auction. The Hroar Dege-Books for Cooks copy (sold Sotheby's, 9th June, 2005, lot 227 & 15th July, 2010, lot 94). The authors had been cooks at the London Tavern and were now head cooks at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand.Provenance: ‘Ce livre appartient A Monsieur ?Desivet. Professeur de la langue anglaise…Rue Royale, no. 9…’ (ink inscription to head of recto of half title).