Lamb, E.

Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical and household receipts. Written by the same hand throughout, in a volume inter-leaved with blotting-paper. Some MS. receipts by various hands, newspaper cuttings, etc. have been pasted in. There is an inserted envelope containing 50 loose receipts and cuttings c. 1775-c. 1875. Signature 'E. Lamb. 1827' written inside the upper cover.

1827

1 volume pp. 13-79 + 19 bl. ll. + 5 ll. + 9 bl. ll. + 2 ll. 4to. 231/2 × 181/2 cm. Original half-calf binding damaged. Pp. 1-12, 27/28, 23/24, 51/52 are missing: half of p. 35/36 is wanting; and other leaves are frayed or defective.

Purchased 1931.

Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/214.

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).