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• Cooking -- Early works to 1800
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• The French Cook: Prescribing the Way of Making Ready of All Sorts of Meats, Fish and Flesh, With the Proper Sauces, Either to Procure Appetite, or to Advance the Power of Digestion (London: Printed for C. Adams, 1653), by François Pierre de La Varenne, trans. by I. D. G. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Artistic Cookery: A Practical System Suited for the Use of the Nobility and Gentry and for Public Entertainments (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1870), by Urbain Dubois (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to Modern Cookery (London: W. Heinemann, 1907), by A. Escoffier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hand-Book of Practical Cookery, for Ladies and Professional Cooks (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1884), by Pierre Blot (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• La Cuisine Française: French Cooking for Every Home, Adapted to American Requirements (Chicago: Baldwin, Ross and Co., c1893), by François Tanty (multiple formats with commentary at MSU)
• The Epicurean: A Complete Treatise of Analytican and Practical Studies on the Culinary Art (New York: C. Ranhofer, 1894), by Charles Ranhofer (multiple formats with commentary at MSU)

• The Art of Cookery, in Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry, With Some Letters to Dr. Lister, and Others (second edition; some material in Latin; London: Printed for B. Lintott, ca. 1709), by William King (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Compleat Cook: Expertly Prescribing the Most Ready Wayes, Whether Italian, Spanish, or French, for Dressing of Flesh, and Fish, Ordering of Sauces, or Making of Pastry (London: Printed by E. B. for N. Brook, 1658) (Gutenberg text)
• Receipts of Pastry and Cookery, for the Use of His Scholars (ca. 1720), by E. Kidder (page images here at Penn)
• Liber Cure Cocorum (Middle English original, and modern English translation), ed. by Richard Morris, trans. by Cindy Renfrow (page images and HTML at pbm.com)

• A Queens Delight: or, The Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying; As Also a Right Knowledge of Making Perfumes, and Distilling the Most Excellent Waters (London: Printed by E. Tyler and R. Holt for N. Brooke, 1671) (Gutenberg text)
• The Queens Closet Opened: Incomparable Secrets in Physick, Chyrurgery, Preserving, Candying, and Cookery; As They Were Presented to the Queen (fourth edition corrected; London: Printed for N. Brooks, 1658) (page images in Barcelona)
• A True Gentlewomans Delight, Wherein is Contained All Manner Of Cookery; Together with Preserving, Conserving, Drying And Candying (London: W. I. Gent, 1653), by Elizabeth Grey Kent (HTML at Michigan)

• American Cookery (Hartford: Printed for S. Butler, 1798), by Amelia Simmons (multiple formats with commentary at MSU)

• Ein Buch von Guter Speise (in German; Stuttgart: Literarischer Verein, 1844) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Accomplisht Cook: or, The Art and Mystery of Cookery (fifth edition; London: Printed for O. Blagrave, 1685), by Robert May (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, Which Far Exceeds Any Thing of the Kind Yet Published (new edition London: Printed for A. Millar et al., 1767), by Hannah Glasse, contrib. by Andrew Millar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book for Receipts (manuscript, cover dated 1731) (PDF at vt.edu)
• A Book of Cookrye (1591), by A. W. (HTML at jducoeur.org)
• The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion (14th edition; London: Printed for R. Ware et al., 1750), by E. Smith
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Cook's Pocket-Companion and Compleat Family-Guide: Being a Collection of the Very Best Receipts (London: Printed for J. Staples, 1758), by Lydia Honeywood (page images at NIH)
• The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm (sixth edition, ca. 1732), by Richard Bradley (Gutenberg text)
• The English Art of Cookery, According to the Present Practice (London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1788), by Richard Briggs (multiple formats at Google)
• English Housewifry, Exemplified in Above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts, Giving Directions in Most Parts of Cookery (ninth edition; Leeds: Printed for G. Copperthwaite, 1764), by Elizabeth Moxon (multiple formats at Google)
• The Family's Best Friend, or The Whole Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy: Together With a Complete System of Brewery; The Management of Malt Liquors; The Distillery of Simple and Compound Waters, Family Cordials, &c; and Instructions for the Cultivating of the Fruit, Flower, and Kitchen Garden (6th edition; London: Printed for C. Henderson, ca. 1755), by Arabella Fairfax (page images at NIH)
• The Forme of Cury, A Roll of Ancient English Cookery, Compiled, About A. D. 1390, by the Master-Cooks of King Richard II (London: Printed by J. Nichols, printer to the Society of Antiquaries, 1780), contrib. by Samuel Pegge
  • page images at pbm.com
  • Gutenberg text
• The Modern Cook, and Frugal Housewife's Compleat Guide to Every Branch in Displaying Her Table to the Greatest Advantage (Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed for the author, 1782), by E. Spencer (page images at NIH)
• A New Booke of Cookerie (some front matter not transcribed; London: Printed for Iohn Browne, 1615), by John Murrell (HTML in Germany)
• A Proper Newe Book of Cokerye (London: J. Kynge and T. Marche, ca. 1570) (HTML in Germany)
• The Queen-Like Closet, or Rich Cabinet, Stored with All Manner of Rare Receipts for Preserving, Candying and Cookery: Very Pleasant and Benefical to All Ingenious Persons of the Female Sex (second edition; London: Printed for R. Lowndes, 1672), by Hannah Woolley (page images in Barcelona)
• Recipe Book (manuscript, 1705), by D. Petre (page images here at Penn)
• A True Gentlewomans Delight, Wherein is Contained All Manner Of Cookery; Together with Preserving, Conserving, Drying And Candying (London: W. I. Gent, 1653), by Elizabeth Grey Kent (HTML at Michigan)
• The Country Housewife's Family Companion (originally published 1750), by William Ellis (HTML and PDF with commenary at soilandhealth.org)
• A Good Huswifes Handmaide for the Kitchin (possibly imperfect transcription of a 1594 London cookbook) (illustrated HTML with commentary at Foods of England)
• A Noble Boke Off Cookry Ffor a Prynce Houssolde or Eny Other Estately Houssolde: Reprinted Verbatim From a Rare Ms. in the Holkham Collection (London: Elliot Stock, 1882), ed. by Robina Napier (text at medievalcookery.com)
• Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books: Harleian Ms. 279 (ab. 1430), and Harl. Ms. 4016 (ab. 1450); With Extracts From Ashmole Ms. 1429, Laud Ms. 553, and Douce Ms. 55 (EETS original series #91; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1888), ed. by Thomas Austin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English House-Wife: Containing the Inward and Outward Vertues Which Ought to Be in a Compleat Woman (London: Printed for G. Sawbridge, 1675), by Gervase Markham (page images in Barcelona)

• Ein Buch von Guter Speise (in German; Stuttgart: Literarischer Verein, 1844) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome: A Bibliography, Critical Review and Translation of the Ancient Book Known as Apicius de re Coquinaria (ca. 1926), by Apicius, ed. by Joseph Dommers Vehling, contrib. by Frederick Starr (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Apicii Librorum X Qui Dicuntur De Re Coquinaria, Quae Extant (in Latin; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1922), by Apicius, ed. by Caesar Giarratano and Friedrich Vollmer
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets (Brooklyn: Pub. by the Women's Auxiliary, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1937), by John Evelyn, contrib. by Helen Morgenthau Fox (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)

• The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Śaṅkarācārya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), by Edmund Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indagación Filosófica Sobre el Orígen de Nuestras Ideas Acerca de lo Sublime y lo Bello (in Spanish; Alcalá: Oficina de la Real Universidad, 1807), by Edmund Burke, trans. by Juan de la Dehesa (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Essay on the Beautiful (From the Greek of Plotinus) (London: J. M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus, trans. by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
• Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
• Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poesie: Containing the Necessary, Rational, and Universal Rules for Epick, Dramatick, and the Other Sorts of Poetry (London: Printed by T.N. for H. Herringman, 1674), by René Rapin, trans. by Thomas Rymer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)

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