Cookery and Pastry as taught and practised by Mrs. Mikiver, Teacher of those arts in Edinburgh

Edinburgh: For C. Elliot, 1787. Book. 8vo, contemp. calf. Pp. xii, [13]-264. Rubbed, moderately browned and foxed throughout; lacking flyleaves; a sound copy. Early ownership signatures of Margaret Johnston and F. A. Bruce. Fourth ed.? A lively and relatively translatable 18th century cook book, first published in 1773. The book concludes with a 7 pp. "List of Things in Season, in Every Month of the Year." As noted by Maclean, "Mrs. Susanna Maciver and her colleague Mrs. Frazer ran one of the few schools of cookery in Edinburgh." MacLean, p. 92; Oxford p. 106, listing 6 editions up to 1800, but not this..