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English cookery books, 1500 to 1900: a bibliography, by John F. Preston

Archive File: MS 163 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: English cookery books, 1500 to 1900: a bibliography, by John F. Preston

Level: File

Classmark: MS 163

Creator(s): Preston, John F()

Date(s): c. 1962

Language: English

Size and medium: [ii], 83 ff., typescript (ring binding), with an envelope of loose and stapled sheets

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6476

Collection group(s): Cookery Collection

Description

The bibliography takes the form of a synoptic list of some 1,500 items, for the most part arranged chronologically. Also present are "Contents of case no. 1"; a handlist of the John F. Preston cookery collection issued by the Brotherton Library; booksellers' catalogues; and miscellaneous notes relating to cookery books

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Presented by John F. Preston in 1962, along with his collection of English cookery books published 1564-1861

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