The country housewife and lady's director : in the management of a house, and the delights and profits of farm. Containing instructions for managing the brew-house, and malt-liquors in the cellar; the making of wines of all sorts. Directions for the dairy, in the improvement of butter and cheese upon the worst of soils ; the feeding and making of brawn ; the ordering of fish, fowl, herbs, roots, and all other useful branches belonging to a country seat, in the most elegant manner for the table. Practical observations concerning distilling ; with the best method of making ketchup, and many other curious and durable sauces. The whole distributed in their proper months, from the beginning to the end of the year. With particular remarks relating to the drying or kilning of saffron / by R. Bradley, professor of botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S.

The sbcond [sic] edition.

London : Printed for Woodman, and Lyon, in Russel-street, Convent Garden, MDCCXXVII [1727]

xi, [1], 187, [1] p. : 1 ill. ; 20 cm. (8vo)

BEIN 2012 390: Inscriptions: F.E. Win[?]; P.D. Oyly, bot. at Mr. Benyon's sale at Boseford; Helen Morris ... Cambridge. Stamp: Ascott House Convalescent Home wing, Leighton, Buzzard. Ms. notes throughout.

English

May 10, 2012

English short title catalogue, T13251

England London.