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COOKERY. King, William. The Art of Cookery, in Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. 1708

(COOKERY.) [King, William.] The Art of Cookery, in Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. With Some Letters to Dr. Lister and Others . . . Concerning the Soups and Sauces of the Antients. [8], 160 pages, including half-title. 8vo, old sheep, rebacked; contents browned, some dampstaining in lower margins, early signature of Henry Bickley on title, passage of text at bottom of page 153 faint (from inadequate inking?) but legible. 19th-century bookplates of John Simpson and J. G. Cooper. London: Bernard Lintott, [1708]

  • Notes: first authorized edition of a verse satire of Martin Lister''s 1705 edition of Apicius. Foxon K57; Keynes (Lister) 58; Oxford, page 51; Lilly Library, Une Affaire de Goût 100.
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