Smith (Eliza). The Compleat Housewife: or Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion: Being a Collection of upwards of Five Hundred of the most Approved Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary [sic], Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials ... The Fifth Edition, with very large Additions; near Fifty Receipts being communicated just before the Author's Death, London: J. Pemberton, 1732. 8vo (200 x 120 mm), contemporary panelled calf, 6 engraved folding plates (bills of fare), 4 pp. advertisements, contemporary ownership inscriptions including 'Elizabeth Cooper her book 1755' to front free endpaper, contemporary manuscript receipts to rear free endpaper, extensive loss to leather, damp-staining, worming to lower fore corners of quires L-P, a few marginal nicks and tears, several leaves dog-eared, plate 1 frayed along fore edge (qty: 1) ESTC N16070 (six copies in libraries world-wide).