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Total number of records: 91

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	80
Archives	11

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Cookery Collection	89
Herbert Read Collection	1
Brotherton Collection	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
home economics	91
cooking, english	44
cooking	42
recipes	23
medicine	5
medicine, popular	4
prices	3
menus	3
royal households	3
international cooking	2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)	17
Copley, Esther	7
Child, Lydia Maria Francis (1802-1880)	6
Beeton, Mrs (1836-1865)	5
Radcliffe, M	4
Johnstone, C I (1781-1857)	4
Society of Antiquaries of London	3
Lady	3
Buckmaster, J C (1820-)	3
Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637)	2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1600	2
From 1700	9
From 1800	80

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1699	2
Up to 1799	7
Up to 1899	82

A recipe book in various hands, once in the possession of Mrs Green of Penblaith Farm, Llangarron, Herefordshire, from 1741 to 1764

Cookery book

Liberal living for men of limited means, by a Miserly Old Bachelor

An anonymous eighteenth-century recipe book containing culinary, medical and household recipes

Cookery book

An anonymous recipe book containing culinary, medical and household recipes and memoranda, probably of Guernsey origin

The book of household management : comprising information for the mistress, housekeeper, cook, kitchen-maid, butler, footman, coachman, valet, parlour-maid, housemaid, lady's maid, general servant, laundry-maid, nurse and nurse-maid, monthly, wet, and sick-nurse, governess : also, sanitary, medical and legal memoranda : with a history of the origin, properties, and uses of all things connected with home life and comfort