Archimagirus Anglo-Gallicus, or, Excellent & approved receipts and experiments in cookery : together with the best way of preserving : as also, rare formes of sugar-works, according to the French mode, and English manner / copied from a choice manuscript of Sir Theodore Mayerne, knight, physician to the late K. Charles, magistro artis, edere est esse.
1658
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Archimagirus Anglo-Gallicus, or, Excellent & approved receipts and experiments in cookery : together with the best way of preserving : as also, rare formes of sugar-works, according to the French mode, and English manner / copied from a choice manuscript of Sir Theodore Mayerne, knight, physician to the late K. Charles, magistro artis, edere est esse.
Uniform title
Archimagirus Anglo-Gallicus.
Running title
Excellent receipts for cookery
Created/published
[London] : Printed for G. Bedell and T. Collins, and are to be sold at their shop at the Middle-Temple-Gate, in Fleet-Street, 1658.
Description
[8], 112, [24] p. ; 13 cm (12mo)
Associated name
Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de, Sir, 1573-1655, attributed name.
Bedell, Gabriel, -1668, bookseller.
Collins, Thomas, active 1650-1682, bookseller.
Jolley, Thomas, former owner.
Bedell, Gabriel, -1668, bookseller.
Collins, Thomas, active 1650-1682, bookseller.
Jolley, Thomas, former owner.
Note
"Most, if not all, of the recipes are copied from earlier books. The compiler ... doubtless invented the fiction of a Mayerne manuscript."--Oxford, A.W. English cookery books to the year 1850 (London, 1913): 29.
Signatures: A⁴ B-F¹² G⁸.
Title page printed in red and black.
Bookseller's advertisements: gathering G.
Signatures: A⁴ B-F¹² G⁸.
Title page printed in red and black.
Bookseller's advertisements: gathering G.
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R217403
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), M142
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), M142
Genre/form
Booksellers' advertisements.
Cookbooks.
Cookbooks.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
266- 306q
Folger-specific note
Annotations: Jolley's sale; T.J. 1809. Bound in blind tooled leather with marbled endpapers, gold-tooling on spine.
Folger accession
266306