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Commonplace book containing draft legal warrants, culinary and medical recipes, mathematical notes, moral precepts, and English verse from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
c.1650-1730
Contains, from one end, 'tables of the names of all the warrants contained in this booke made 1658', followed by a book of recipes, and, from the other end, an 'enumeration table' of various mathemati...
Commonplace book containing recipes, original and copied poems, newspaper cuttings, and a child's drawings.
c.1720-1830
Contains: (1) 65 recipes written on 26 pages during the early part of the eighteenth century, from about 1720 onwards, for making large quantities of cordials, probably for the use of a large househol...
The new family receipt book : containing one thousand truly valuable receipts in various branches of domestic economy
Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)
1824
Anon., by M.E.K. Rundell.
Commonplace book of English and Latin verse and prose
c.1610-1620
Comprises Latin verses on ff.1v-6r, 9r-v; English verses on ff.6v-8r. Other contents: f.1, More to Henry VIII; f.32v,seven-point argument in English; ff.33-47, business, travel and custom-house and ce...
The universal cookery book : 1000 tested and inexpensive recipes including many French dishes
[ca. 1930?]
Advertisements: pp. 251-255.
Poetical commonplace book, compiled by Henry Fairfax
Fairfax, Henry
1679-1682
Many references to Yorkshire localities, e.g. Denton, Tadcaster, Otley, Kettlewell, York. As well as poetry there is much in prose, including recipes. References to writer's brother B. and sister S.
Commonplace book compiled by Jo. Tempest
Tempest, Jo
c.1640-1650
Contains 36 pieces of English verse, five being signed or initialled by Tempest; a few pieces of Latin verse; London sermons etc. from various sources; three extracts from speeches before parliament f...
Commonplace book of poetry and prose in English and Latin, written amongst a collection of medical recipes.
c.1710-1750
Contains 64 English poems, mainly eighteenth-century and satirical, or religious, together with Latin poetry and prose, some medical recipes, and a few stanzas of classical Greek poetry at the end.
[A thousand notable things of sundry sorts, enlarged. Whereof some are wonderfull, some strange, some pleasant, divers necessary, a great sort profitable, and many very precious. Whereunto is now added one hundred excellent conceits never before printed, very witty, usefull, and delightfull]
Lupton, Thomas
[1660]
Preface signed: Thomas Lupton. Wanting title-page. The pagination drops back from 282 to 281.
The seconde part of the Secretes of Maister Alexis of Piemont: by hym collected out of diuers excellent authors, and nevvly translated out of Frenche into Englishe. With a generall table of all matters contained in the saied booke. By Willyam Warde
Alessio Piemontese; Ruscelli, Girolamo (1565); Ward, William (1534-1609)
[1580]
A translation of part 2 of a French version of: De' secreti del R.D. Alessio Piemontese. Mostly in black letter. Publication date from STC. N. England's device is on the title-page and J. Wight'...