William Kitchiner
(1775–1827)

English optician, amateur musician and cook.

William Kitchiner

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  • A Companion to the Telescope (1811)
  • Practical Observations on Telescopes, Opera-glasses, and Spectacles (1815)
  • Apicius Redivivus, or the Cook's Oracle being six hundred receipts, the result of actual experiments instituted in the kitchen of a physician, comprising a culinary code for the rational epicure (1817)
  • Peptic Precepts to prevent and relieve Indigestion (1821)
  • Observations on Vocal Music and Singing (1821)
  • The Pleasures of Making a Will (1822)
  • The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life by Food, Clothes, Air, Exercise, Wine, Sleep,’ &c. (1822)
  • Loyal, National, and Sea Songs of England. Selected from original manuscripts and early printed copies in the library of W. Kitchiner (1822)
  • A brief Memoir of Charles Dibdin, with some Documents supplied by Mrs. Lovat Ashe (1823)
  • The Economy of The Eyes: For the improvement of the sight, and what Spectacles are best calculated for the Eyes, and an Account of the Pancratic Magnifier (1824) (external scan)
  • The Economy of The Eyes Part II: Of Telescopes, being the result of thirty years' experience with fifty-one Telescopes in the possession of W. Kitchiner (1825) (external scan)
  • The Housekeeper's Ledger; a Plan of keeping Accounts of the Expenses of Housekeeping (1825)
  • The Traveller's Oracle, or Maxims for Locomotion (1827)
  • The Horse and Carriage Keeper's Oracle. By John Jervis. Revised by W. Kitchiner. Being Part 2 of the Traveller's Oracle (1827)
  • The Housekeeper's Oracle, containing a system of Carving, the Art of Managing Servants, and the Economist and Epicure's Calendar (1829)
  • The Shilling Kitchiner (1861)

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