Nuevo Arte de Cocina, sacado de la Escuela de la experiencia economica, 1758, 1770
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Nuevo Arte de Cocina
General Notes:
This popular recipe book went through many editions following its original Madrid printing of 1745. The texts used in this transcription are from 1758 and 1770. The title page, foreword, and index have some differences between the texts. The body is the same between the two 1758 editions and the 1770 edition used for this project. There were minor differences in the spelling of words within these texts as well as variations due to different the text being reset between impressions. These differences typically consist of the existance and type of accents used. For example, the 1758 texts has Comenzarèmos and acomodandonos in the opening section of the text while the 1770 edition reads Comenzarémos and acomodándonos. This holds true to a lesser extent between the introductory sections of the two 1758 texts. There were trivial differences between all of the texts in spelling and, occasionally, word order.
The 1758 foreward was transcribed by hand primarily from the University of Orebro. The Univeristy of Barcelona manuscript was used to fill in two missing pages and was also used to verify words that were difficult to read. The text of the body and index were primarily drawn from the 1770 edition as the text works better with the OCR software used to generate the first draft of this transcription. The typography of the 1758 editions includes the use of a long S. These are rendered with the modern lower-case S in this transcription. Likewise, ligatures are rendered as separate letters. Catchwords, page numbers and other indexing have been redacted out of this presentation in order to make the text more usable as a web document. Likewise, words that were hyphenated across lines have been re-joined. Italic and similar formatting has been conserved. Line breaks have been conserved for title pages and headers.
All editions use several typefaces, but all seem to have come out of William Caslons foundry or that of an imitator. A modern equivalent is ITC Founder's Caslon 30 Roman (ITC Collection), versions of which may be found online (Free version - Commercial version).
Special thanks are due Edward L. Eisenstein (alban@socket.net) for his generosity in providing a photographic copy of the 1770 edition. The 1758 edition is freely accessable online at the Fons Grewe digital collection of the Univeristy of Barcelona (link) and from the University of Orebro (link). A later version is available from Google Books (link).
1770 Cookware Illustration
This figure was taken from a different printing than that used for the transcription of the text. It was found as an illustration for a piece going to auction. The page this was taken from was indexed as XXX, indicating the foreword was much more extensive than the 1770 edition used elsewhere in this publication.