MacKenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts : constituting a complete practical library ... : a new American, from the latest London edition : with numerous and important additions generally : and the medical part carefully revised and adapted to the climate of the U. States : and also a new and most copious index / by an American physician.

  • Mackenzie, Colin, 1775?-1827.
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Universal receipt book
Five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts

Publication/Creation

[Philadelphia] : Published by James Kay, Jun. and Brother, Philadelphia ... ; [Pittsburgh] : John I. Kay & Co., Pittsburgh, [1829]

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456 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm (12mo)

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Kay's improved and enlarged edit.

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Copyright: Sept. 25, 1829, James Kay Jr. & Co
Ed. statement at head of title
Running title: Universal receipt book
Signatures: [A]⁶ B-2N⁶
Text in 2 columns
Includes index

Contents

(from t.p.) Agriculture, bees, bleaching, brewing, calico printing, carving at table, cements, confectionary, cookery, crayons, dairy, diseases, distillation, dying, enamelling, engraving, farriery, food, gardening, gilding, glass, health, inks, &c., jewellers' pastes, lithography, medicines, metallurgy, oil colours, oils, painting, pastry, perfumery, pickling, pottery, preserving, scouring, silk, silk worms, silvering, tanning, trees of all kinds, varnishing, water colours, wines, &c. &c. &c

References note

Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 299
Lincoln, W. American cookery books (rev. ed.), 102
Shoemaker 39366

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