Cookery-books: 19th cent.

Collection of cookery receipts: by several hands. The date 1855 is found on p. 146, and 1876 on p. 161. With an envelope containing an index (10 ll.) in a paper-covered note-book, and 22 odd receipts on scraps of note-paper, etc.

c. 1850-c. 1875

1 volume 12 bl. ll. + 175 pp. + 114 bl. ll. + 2 ll. last bl.. 4to. 221/2 x 181/2 cm. Original red morocco binding, with flap. Some leaves have been cut out at the end.

Purchased 1931.

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).