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Total number of records: 207

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Cookery Collection184
Brotherton Collection9
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1
English Literature1
Herbert Read Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
home economics207
cooking, english67
cooking54
recipes39
agriculture9
domestics7
women7
medicine6
carving (meat, etc.)6
menus5

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)32
Philp, Robert Kemp (1819-1882)8
Copley, Esther7
Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637)7
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)7
Child, Lydia Maria Francis (1802-1880)6
Beeton, Mrs (1836-1865)5
Johnstone, C I (1781-1857)5
Parkes, Mrs William5
Lady4

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The boke of nurture

Russell, John (fl. 1450); Rhodes, Hugh (fl. 1550); Furnivall, Frederick James (1825-1910); Worde, Wynkyn de (1534); Roxburghe Club

1867

Each part has special t.-p. and separate pagination.

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The Modern universal receipt book; and complete practical library of useful domestic knowledge, in all the branches of science and art; collected with the greatest care from the best authorities, and illustrated with engravings

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); International Gypsylogical Foundation

1831

Description to plates 1-2 on pp. 285-300. Includes index. Originally published in parts. The frontispiece is engraved by Pickering.

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Hints on houses and house furnishing; or economics for young beginners. Illustrated with numerous engravings

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Sargeant, Peterborough

[n.d., c.1851-1855?]

Bodleian Library suggests c.1855.

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Five hundred points of husbandry : directing what corn, grass, &c. is proper to be sown; what trees to be planted; how land is to be improved : with whatever is fit to be done for the benefit of the farmer in every month of the year

Tusser, Thomas (1524?-1580)

MDCCXLIV [1744]

Originally published: A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie. London : Imprinted by R. Tottil, 1557; a new edition of "Tusser redivivus", first published in this form 1710. In verse.

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Xenophons treatise of housholde

Xenophon; Hervet, Gentian (1499-1584)

1557

Place of publication and Vele's name from colophon; actual printer's name from STC. "This booke of houshold... is ryght counnyngliye traslated out of the Greke tonge into Englisshe, by Gentian Herue...

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