Cookery-books: 18th cent.

Collection of cookery receipts, by several hands: in a volume containing calligraphically written rules for Arithmetic, and a farmer's accounts dated 1725-1732. Signature of C. F. Fellows. 15 Great Cumberland Place, W., inside the upper cover, i.e. Charles Francis Fellows [1847-1919] barrister.

c. 1700-c. 1735

1 volume 7 ll. + 19 ll. + 20 bl. ll. + 1 l. + 22 bl. ll. + 11 ll. + 35 bl. ll. + 24 ll. 4to. 221/2 x 171/2 cm. Original vellum binding, damaged and one cover wanting. A number of leaves have been torn out, or have been mutilated, in various parts of the volume.

Purchased at Sotheby's, 25/7/1919, Lot 781 (part).

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of the Recipe books project.

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).