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Professed Cookery
Professed Cookery: Containing Boiling, Roasting, Pastry, Preserving, Pickling, Potting, Made-Wines, Gellies and Part of Confectionaries with an Essay Upon the Lady's Art of Cookery: And a Plan of House-Keeping the Third Edition | Ann Cook
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T104246 Text is continuous despite the pagination. London: printed for and sold by the author, at her lodgings, in Mr. Moor's, cabinet-maker, Fuller's Rents, Holborn, [1760?]. x,189, [9],191-270,269-296p.; 8°
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July reading went better than June. I tagged the book I've been streaming, which is a wild ride from 1755 that I'm transcribing for epub so everyone can enjoy.
Don't read: The Girl from the Other Side, The Witch Boy, and Made in Korea. The latter two the authors mean well but oh boy, no no no.
Everything else on here was okay to good, nothing really amazing though. I disagree with everyone that The Haunted and the Haunters is better unabridged.

Faranae I should have added a sticker for Victorian Parlour Games and What Is Colour - those were ARCs, with October and August release dates. Black History in Canada was an ARC, but it's an update of a 20 year old book rather than completely new (it gets regular revisions as it's basically a textbook). 3mo
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