The three cooks of Colebrook a triumvirate: Christmas bill of fare for eating all the year, 1729.

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Henley, John, 1692-1756. The three cooks of Colebrook a triumvirate: Christmas bill of fare for eating all the year, 1729.

The three cooks of Colebrook a triumvirate: Christmas bill of fare for eating all the year, 1729.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702175656

Autograph manuscript, heavily corrected and revised, of a prose political satire in which cooking is used as an analogy for government. The argument reads: "The sevral ways of maneging society & civil govt. are exhibited under the image of cookry. The chief ruler is Mastr. Cook; his Mins. ye cooks of Colebrook; ye laws of nations are ye progress & kinds of cookry-- this is applyd to ye history of Greece & Alexandr, & by the Cooks of C. are implyd ye various artifices of dupping and oppressing ye people."

1 v. (35 p.) ; 21 x 16 cm.

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