Facsimile Editions

Facsimile Editions

12 projects. Showing results 1 through 12.

A New Orchard and Garden with The Country Housewife’s Garden (1618)

William Lawson, Country Parson and Author, (1553/4-1635)

A New and Easy Method of Cookery

Elizabeth Cleland, 18th-century Cookery Teacher
colonial officer seated at writing desk being fanned by a turbaned servant, watercolour

Culinary Jottings for Madras

Colonel A.R. Kenney-Herbert — a.k.a. 'Wyvern' (1840-2016) Army Colonel & Cookery Writer

First Catch Your Hare

The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (1747)

Hannah Glasse, Cookbook Author, (1708-1770)

Indian Cookery

Richard Terry, Oriental Club

The Accomplisht Cook (1660/85)

or, the art and mystery of cookery

Robert May, Chef and Cookbook Author, (1588-circa 1664), Biographical Introduction by Marcus Bell, Foreword by Alan Davidson, Diplomat and Food Historian, (1924-2003)

The Art of Cookery

John Thacker, 18th-Century Cook to Dean of Durham Cathedral
Woodcut showing a page serving at a lord's high table

The Boke of Keruynge

(The Book of Carving)

Wynkyn de Worde, Medieval Printer, Edited by Peter Brears, Food Historian and Consultant
book cover

The Country Housewife’s Family Companion (1750)

William Ellis (1700-1750), Agriculturalist & Writer

The Gentlewomans Companion (1675) or, A Guide to the Female Sex

Hannah Woolley, Author and Educator, (c.1622 – in or after 1675)

The Most Excellent Book of Cookery

Historical Introduction by Ken Abala, University of the Pacific, Translated by Timothy J. Tomasik, Valparaiso University

The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected (1682)

William Rabisha, Cook & Author, (fl. 1625–1661)