Pageit, Richard. HIS MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK containing c.120 entries for wines, meat and fish dishes, cakes, biscuits, preserves, soups, sauces, pies and other dishes, including a recipe for veal soup in verse "Sent by Mr Pope to Dean Swift", with a few medicinal recipes such as "The famous American Receipt for the Rheumatism", "An Excellent Syrup for preserving the Lungs", and a recipe for plague water dated 12 July 1721 "Sent by Monsr. P. Daulhat to Coll: John Archer, who afterwards unhappily shot himself" c.80 pages (most with contemporary pagination) plus blanks, mostly in a single hand, two recipes loosely inserted, oblong 8vo (180 x 240 mm.), [1700-c.1750], contemporary green painted vellum, central panel of front cover lettered in gilt "Richard Pageit 25t March 1700", light staining throughout, extremities worn
Pageit, Richard. HIS MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK containing c.120 entries for wines, meat and fish dishes, cakes, biscuits, preserves, soups, sauces, pies and other dishes, including a recipe for veal soup in verse "Sent by Mr Pope to Dean Swift", with a few medicinal recipes such as "The famous American Receipt for the Rheumatism", "An Excellent Syrup for preserving the Lungs", and a recipe for plague water dated 12 July 1721 "Sent by Monsr. P. Daulhat to Coll: John Archer, who afterwards unhappily shot himself" c.80 pages (most with contemporary pagination) plus blanks, mostly in a single hand, two recipes loosely inserted, oblong 8vo (180 x 240 mm.), [1700-c.1750], contemporary green painted vellum, central panel of front cover lettered in gilt "Richard Pageit 25t March 1700", light staining throughout, extremities worn
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