Lisle (or Delisle), Anne

Collection of cookery, medical, veterinary, and domestic receipts. The first volume contains cookery receipts, and is in two parts each with an index. The second volume contains 'Physical receits', 'Cattle receits', and 'Curious receits': each of these has its own index.

1748

2 volumes 2 vols. folio. 31 x 20 cm. Original calf bindings worn.

Purchased at Sotheby's 1/6/1943, lot 91.

On the fly-leaf of the first volume 'Anne Lisle 1748'. She is perhaps the Ann Cary daughter of Nicholas Cary of Upcern, Dorset, who married Charles Lisle [ -1777] of Wodyton and Moyles Court.

From the Library of the De Lisle Family of Garendon Park, Leicestershire.

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).