Object details
Accession number
1.b.2.17
Primary Creator
Full title
The bourgeois Cook [La cuisiniere bourgeoise]
Creation Date
1757
Language
French
Publication Place
Brussels
Description
492 p. ; 17 cm.
Provenance
Purchased by Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, for £3 on 17 November 1781.
Inherited by William Temple Franklin (1760-1823), grandson and secretary of Benjamin Franklin.
Marks
Inscribed on the frontispiece: 'W. T. Franklin' on the front fly-leaf.
Display Media
Ink on paper
Web Commentary
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Permanent Gallery Location
Long Gallery
Bibliography
Edwin Wolf and Kevin J. Hayes, The Library of Benjamin Franklin. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society and Library Company of Philadelphia, 2006, p. 552, no. 2293.
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