When did the word cutlery first include spoons and forks?

Solution 1:

The term cutlery embraced forks (but not, apparently, spoons) at least as early as 1766, when D. Fenning, J. Collyer and others report of the island of Borneo that

 —A New System of Geography: or A General Description of the World

This understanding received judicial imprimatur in the case of Kirk against Nowill and Butler, King's Bench, Hilary Term 1786, where it is reported (and not gainsaid) that searchers appointed by the Company of Cutlers of the Lordship of Hallamshire to discover ‘deceitful and unworkmanly cutlery wares’, did

And Thomas Martin, Civil Engineer, assisted by eminent professional mechanics and manufacturers, states in The Circle of the Mechanical Arts, 1813, that

Solution 2:

I cannot remember when the word cutlery did not include spoons and forks, but the usage seems to have become common during my lifetime. My Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, 8th Edition (copyright 1980) lists the meaning as:

cutlery:
1: edged or cutting tools; specif. implements for cutting and eating food.
2: the business of a cutler.

My OED Compact Edition (1928) lists only edged and cutting tools as included in its definition.