LOT 4663
25th November 2026
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LOT 4663
MANUSCRIPT. – COOKERY. [A hand-written book of recipes. N.p.:] 1830. 84pp., manuscript, 8vo (198 x 159mm.) 42 leaves in two or three mostly legible hands, comprising recipes for food and also instructions for practical matters. (Spotting, browning, text-block split, quires loose.) Contemporary boards (detached, lower cover missing, worn). Note: numerous recipes for deserts, wine, cakes, also ‘French bread’, ‘stewed eels’ and ‘boiling a lobster’. There are domestic instructions, too, for removing ‘ink stains from linen’, ‘cleaning marble’, to ‘mend broken china’, and to ‘wash silk stockings’. Provenance: Mrs. Foster-Selby (ink dedication to her daughter front pastedown, dated 1830).
Estimate: £50 – £80
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