Title
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.
Published
London : Printed for Woodman, and Lyon, in Russel-street, Convent Garden, MDCCXXVII [1727]
Physical Description
xi, [1], 187, [1] p. : 1 ill. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Local Notes
BEIN 2013 841: Inscription on front free endpaper: Mary Drewett. Manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 1 of 3 titles bound together.
Notes
Head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Signatures: [A]⁴ a² B-M⁸ N⁶.
Added to Catalog
June 14, 2013
References
English short title catalogue, N29003
Genre/Form
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
Also listed under
Great Britain England London.