Cookery-books: 18th/19th cent.

Collection of cookery receipts by different hands. Some leaves have been torn out at the beginning, and a number from the end of the book. Of the 133 ll. after the cookery receipts, most are blank, and a few are mutilated: there are notes on linen, riddles, and scribblings, and the dates 1820, 1821 occur.

c. 1750-c. 1820

1 volume 3 ll. + 52 pp. + 133 ll. 4to. 191/2 x 151/2 cm. Original vellum binding.

Purchased 1922.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).