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An anonymous mid-nineteenth century recipe book, in several hands

Archive Print Item: Manuscripts MS 1666 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Book

Title: An anonymous mid-nineteenth century recipe book, in several hands

Level: Item

Classmark: Manuscripts MS 1666

Additional creator(s): Swainson family (Other)

Related people: Swainson family

Date(s): 1868-1887

Language: English

Size and medium: 1 vol. (ii, 150, [9])

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/374815

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991009337039705181

Description

The writers of the recipe book are unknown.


Leather-bound ruled exercise book, with pages numbered 1-150 in a contemporary hand, with occasional blank pages and pp.114-158 blank; some loose inserts.


Comprises recipes collected from, or attributed to, friends and family members (many are from members of the Swainson family of Ulverstone.).


Bought from Quaritch (Phillips sale, 9 November 2001).

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