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Rare and modern books

Borella (Mr.)

The Court and Country Confectioner: or, the House-Keeperís Guide; To a more speedy, plain, and familiar method of understanding the whole art of confectionary, pastry, distilling, and the making of fine flavoured English wines from all kinds of fruits, herbs, and flowers; comprehending near five hundred easy and practical receipts, never before made known. Particularly, Preserving. Candying. Icing. Transparent Marmalade. Orange. Pine-Apple. Pistachio, and other Rich Creams. Caramel. Pastils. Bomboons. Syrups. Puff, Spun, and Fruit-Pastes. Light-Biscuits. Puffs. Rich Seed-Cakes. Custards. Syllabubs. Flummeries. Trifles, Whips, Fruits, and other Jellies. - Pickles, &c. Also New and easy directions for clarifying the different degrees of

London: Printed for G. Riley, at his Circulating Library, - Curson-Street, May-Fair - J. Bell, in the Strand - J. Wheble, Pater noster-row - and C. Etherington, at York, 1772.,

1868.76 €

Forest Books William Laywood

(Grantham, United Kingdom)

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Author
Borella (Mr.)
Publishers
London: Printed for G. Riley, at his Circulating Library,, Curson-Street, May-Fair, J. Bell, in the Strand, J. Wheble, Pater noster-row, and C. Etherington, at York, 1772.
Keyword
GASTRONOMY COOKERY SOCIAL STUDIES SOCIAL SCIENCES DISTILLATION, FOOD WINE DRINK

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New edition, [2], ii, 3, [1], xxiii, [1], 271, [1], 46pp., ëOn distilling in generalí has separate pagination, handsomely bound in half calf by Trevor Lloyd of Ludlow, marbled boards, five raised bands to spine with red morocco title label and tooled in gilt, a very nice copy. It was not until the publication of this new edition that the ìIngenious Foreignerî, responsible for the 1770 and 1771 editions, revealed himself as ìMr. Borella, now head confectioner to the Spanish Ambassador in England.î All three edition are rare with ESTC recording 7 copies of the first 1770 edition, 1 of the second edition of 1771, and 8 copies of this new and last edition. Maclean, pp. 10-11; Oxford, p. 102; Bitting, p. 49-50; Simon, 227; Cagle, 572.
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