The Experienced English Housekeeper: for the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c
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First American Edition. 3 engraved folding plates. 4 , iii, 1 , 327, 1 , 12 pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree sheep, minor wear. Foxing and browning as usual. Shaw 1211; Lowenstein 29. Item #352280 Elizabeth Raffald spent fifteen years as housekeeper to Lady Elizabeth Warburton before she opened a confectioner's shop in Manchester and set up a cookery school. She went on to have fifteen daughters, run two inns,
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