Cookery-books: 18th cent.

Collection of cookery receipts.

c. 1750

1 volume pp. 3-130 + 17 ll. last 12 bl.. 4to. 20 x 16 cm. Original quarter-calf binding. The first leaf and p. 73/4 are wanting, and some leaves have been torn out after the end of the text. Headings underlined in red. All except the last five leaves of text are written by the same hand.

Purchased 1931.

There are some early 19th cent. receipts on slips inserted loose. Pasted on the inside of the lower cover is a cutting from a printed catalogue, and below this a note 'Bought at Hodgson's Sale Rooms August 1st, 1913. 15/- J.H. The first leaf is missing'. From the John Hodgkin Collection of Cookery-books.

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).