The family magazine : in two parts ... with a supplement containing a great variety of experienced receipts from two excellent family collections, now first communicated for the public benefit, to which is added an explanation of such terms of art used in the work as could not be so easily reduced to the understanding of common readers.

Preface signed: Arabella Atkyns.

Signatures: A-I⁸ ²A-U⁸ X².

Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 550

Pennell, E.R. My cookery books, p. 150

Maclean, V. Household and cookery books, p. 49

(from t.p.) Part I. Containing useful directions in all the branches of house-keeping and cookery, particularly shewing how to buy-in the best of all sorts of provisions, as poultry-ware, butchers-meat, fish, fruit, &c., with several hundred receipts in cookery, pastry, pickling, confectionary, distilling, brewing, cosmeticks, &c., together with the art of making English wines, &c. -- Part II. Containing a compendious body of physick, succinctly treating of all the diseases and accidents incident to men, women, and children, with practical rules and directions for the preserving and restoring of health, and prolonging of life ... being principally the common-place book of a late able physician, by which he successfully, for many years, regulated his practice.

Includes index.