Cookery-books: 19th cent.

Date:
c. 1850
Reference:
MS.1844
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Cookery-books: 19th cent. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical and household receipts. Most of the receipts are by the same scribe, but there are a few additions by several different hands.

Publication/Creation

c. 1850

Physical description

1 volume 2 bl. ll. + 82 pp. + 10 ll. + 14 bl. ll. + 10 ll. + 1 bl. l. 4to. 23 x 181/2 cm. Original quarter-calf binding. The upper part of the last blank leaf has been torn away. The paper is water-marked 1832.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1931.

Location of duplicates

Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/231.

Finding aids

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).

Ownership note

From the John Hodgkin Collection of Cookery-books.

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  • 73731J