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Total number of records: 134

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Books and printed items97
Archives37

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
recipes112
home economics58
cooking52
cooking, english37
formulas, recipes, etc22
medicine8
carving (meat, etc.)5
cooking, australian4
medicine, popular4
wine and wine making4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hodgkin, John (Bibliographer)11
Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)8
Radcliffe, M4
Dudley, Georgiana Elizabeth Ward Countess of4
Davis Gelatine (Australia) Limited4
Eaton, Mary3
Hughson, David (1813)3
Acton, Eliza (1799-1859)3
Macdonald, Duncan (1800-)3
Philp, Robert Kemp (1819-1882)2

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From 180073
From 190061

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Up to 189965
Up to 199969
Various culinary receipts compiled by Dorothy Darby
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Various culinary receipts compiled by Dorothy Darby

Darby, Dorothy

c.1800

Watermark, 'R. Glover 1798', ff. 1 and 2. Inscriptions: front paste-down, 'Dorothy Darby's Cyphering Book'; back paste-down, 'Dorothy Darby, Hadley Green, near Barnet, Middlesex'. Folios bearing her '...

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

18--

A collection of recipes

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

c.1837-1857

A collection of recipes (pp.7-71), and extracts from the Bible (pp.262-76)

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Recipe book, compiled by Mrs R.A. Aldred
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Recipe book, compiled by Mrs R.A. Aldred

Aldred, R A

c.1900

A collection of cookery recipes

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

18--

Nine cookery recipes, followed by 35 blank pages. Contents note on front cover by Mrs Blanche Leigh

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An anonymous collection of culinary and medical receipts
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An anonymous collection of culinary and medical receipts

18--

Pages 1-129 contain culinary receipts; pages 130-137 contain medical receipts; (pp.9-14; 23-24; 28-30; 42-44; 56-58; 68-70; 75-78;91-108; 119-129; 138-148 are blank)

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Catalogue entries of foreign cookery books, compiled by John Hodgkin
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Catalogue entries of foreign cookery books, compiled by John Hodgkin

Hodgkin, John (bibliographer)

c.1930

Austrian and Swiss cookery books are included in the list

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Notes on old cookery books, compiled by John Hodgkin

Hodgkin, John (bibliographer)

c.1925

The main manuscript contains five chapters devoted to old cookery books of particular interest, as follows: (1) ff.4-16: Ann Wallis: 1673; (2) ff.17-37: Mrs Windham: 1710; (3) ff. 38-60: Captain Thoma...

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American cookery
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American cookery

c.1901-1950

A collection of recipes

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