Beschreibung:

A collection of books on the subject of Cookery, to include various hand-written examples giving various recipes not only for meals but also for medicines and poisons, etc (20) CONDITION REPORTS Includes six manuscript books and one unbound ribboned velum manuscript. Velum piece inscribed "Recipes and Formulas for the manufacture of Cordials Excisable and Non Excisable - Fruit Syrups, Essences, Extracts and etc - Awarded thirty-five Gold and Silver Medals for purity and general excellence". Thirteen sheets in all - see images for examples. Obviously has been folded for some time, folds very defined. Other manuscripts include: 1.Black clothboard bound edition with tooled leather spine and corners, with lettered index to front and various numbered pages including various recipes and remedies in various pencil, ink, sepia etc. 2. Fabric covered bearing calendar to interior for 1903 and 1904, ownership inscription "Frances M Wuff Recipe Book...." see images for sample pages. 3. "Recipe Book - F.R. Bell" in marbled board binding with tooled and gilded leather spine, re-bound, stamped to interior "F R Bell Chymist Middlesborough" upon inspection interior appears to pre-date binding. 4. Tooled and gilded calf-bound example bearing previous purchase price "£250.00" black ink/sepia interior including recipes such as "Two pickled cucumbers = My Mothers - To collar a calves head- Mary Barnes - To hash a calves head - To brown butter - a recipe to cure an asthma, tincture of myrrh - To cure an ague etc etc. 5. Marbled board covered with leather spine (very damaged) ownership inscription to frontice "M Dighton" including recipes "To make blamange - Dutch Cream - Regency Cake - Roll'd up Gingerbread - Bread Sauce from the Queen (dated 1877) etc etc 6.Marbled board bound with brown suede spine bearing ownership name to interior "Ridley" with indistinct no. or date including recipes "To Gild Sheets of Paper", "Burnished Gilding on Glass", "Orange Brandy" etc with several blank sheets to the interior with further script, poetry, prose, quotes, various drawings, cartoons etc - see images for examples