RAFFALD, Elizabeth. The Experienced English Housekeeper, For the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c. (1782 - THE EIGHTH EDITION)

AUTHOR: RAFFALD, Elizabeth. 

TITLE: The Experienced English Housekeeper, For the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c. Written purely from Practice, and dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, Whom the Author lately served as Housekeeper: Consisting of near Nine Hundred Original Receipts, most of which never appeared in print.

PUBLISHER: London: for R. Baldwin, 1782.

DESCRIPTION: THE EIGHTH EDITION. 1 vol., 8-7/16" x 5-1/4", (v)(iii)384pp.(vii)(i), complete, includes the engraved frontis, 3 fold-out plates, and publishers adds,  facsimile signature of Elizabeth Raffald on page 1.  Bound in full contemporary sheep.

CONDITION: Expertly rebacked, internally clean and bright, a VERY GOOD copy.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The first edition was published in Manchester in 1769 by which date Mrs Raffald had spent fifteen years as housekeeper to Lady Elizabeth Warburton, married the gardener, opened a confectioner's shop in Manchester and set up a cookery school. She went on to have fifteen daughters, run two inns, found Salford's first newspaper, establish a registry office for servants and compile Manchester's first Directory.