The compleat confectioner, or, The art of candying and preserving in its utmost perfection. To which is added To which is added, A second part: Containing a curious collection of receipts in cookery, pickling, family physick, &c. with the best and cheapest methods of brewing all sorts of malt liquors, and preparing sundry kinds of excellent made wines, not inferior to the best French; likewise many other pleasant and wholsom drinks, made from our English fruits, as cheap as common small beer / by the late Mris. Eales, Confectioner to King William and Queen Anne. The fifth edition. London : Printed for C. Hitch in Pater-Noster-Row, and A. Millar in the Strand, and sold by Gideon Crawfurd in the Parliament-Close, Edinburgh, 1753.

The second part entitled: 'A curious collection of receipts in cookery, . ' has a separate titlepage, pagination and register, and is a reissue with a different titlepage, of the 1742 edition. The first part is a reissue with cancel titlepage of the 1733 edition, which was entitled: Mrs. Mary Eales's receipts'.

"Price bound 3 s." in square brackets--title page.

Rockefeller Library copy inscribed: "Margaret Bennet her book July 26. 1788"--front pastedown.