Cookery books: 18th/19th cent.

Date:
c. 1775-c. 1830
Reference:
MS.1826
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Cookery books: 18th/19th cent. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Collection of cookery receipts by various hands. The earliest entries may perhaps be dated c. 1775, one by a different hand on p. 61 is dated 1796, and another on p. 92 is dated 1827.

Publication/Creation

c. 1775-c. 1830

Physical description

1 volume 92 pp. + 31 bl. ll. + 2 ll. 4to. 191/2 x 16 cm. Original vellum binding. A silk tie is wanting. Upper margin of the first leaf cut away.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1931.

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).

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