Leighton, Charles

Esculapius redivivus; a notable treasury of health and wisdom. P. 127 and the follwoing 16 unnumbered leaves contain cookery receipts by several illiterate hands, probably of the first quarter of the 18th century. The title seems to have been added later in the same century.

c. 1685-c. 1725

1 volume 11 ll. (last bl.). + 127 pp. + 16 ll. + 16 bl. ll. 4to. 201/2 x 16 cm. Original panelled calf binding. The main text within red rules.

Purchased 1932.

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).

Armorial book-plate of John Haddon Hindley [1766-1827], pasted inside the upper cover. On the verso of the fly-leaf is the signature of 'J. Lee, Doctors Commons, 1828' (i.e. John Lee, 1783-1866); below this is his armorial book-plate.