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Description: Lamb (Patrick). Royal Cookery; or, the Complete Court-Cook. Containing the Choicest Receipts in all the particular Branches of Cookery, Now in Use in the QueenÕs Palaces of St. JamesÕs, Kensington, Hampton-Court, and Windsor. With near Forty Figures (curiously engraven on Copper) of the Magnificent Entertainments at Coronations, Instalment, Balls, Weddings, &c. at Court; Also Receipts for making the Soupes, Jellies, Bisques, RagooÕs, Pattys, Tanzies, ForcÕd-Meats, Cakes, Puddings, &c... To which are added, Bills of Fare for every Season in the Year, 1st ed., printed for Abel Roper, and sold by John Morphew, 1710, half-title present, thirty-five eng. bills of fare, twenty-eight folding, complete as list, one single-leaf plt. trimmed at fore-edge just clipping text, 4pp. pubs. ads. at rear, hinges sometime repaired, upper hinge split, later book ticket of Charles J. Bewlay, Carleton Hall, with contemp. ms. ownership name above, contemp. Cambridge pane calf, extrems. a little rubbed, expertly rebacked and recornered, orig. spine relaid, gilt lettered label renewed, 8vo. Bitting, p.271; Cagle 809; Oxford, p.52; Vicaire, p.490. A clean copy of a rare book in a pleasing contemporary binding. (1)