Lot 213
Recipe Book.- Collection of domestic recipes, manuscript, original vellum, slightly yellowed and soiled, 1776-1826.
Hammer Price: £1,100
Description
Recipe Book.- Collection of domestic recipes, manuscript, 81pp. excluding blanks, 9pp. newspaper cuttings laid down and a 4pp. pamphlet "The Foundling" tipped-in, 6ff. at beginning loose, slightly browned, original vellum, slightly yellowed and soiled, 8vo, 1776-1826.
⁂ Recipes include: "Strops for Razors"; "Black Writing Ink"; "Composition for making Moulds from Medals"; "Mr Gossetts Composition of Wax imitating Ivory"; "Wash-Balls"; "Lip Glue for extemporaneously Cementing Paper, Silk, Thin Leather &c."; "Shaving Powder"; "To mend craked Glasses"; "Mead"; "Orange Wine"; "Blew enamel" etc.
Description
Recipe Book.- Collection of domestic recipes, manuscript, 81pp. excluding blanks, 9pp. newspaper cuttings laid down and a 4pp. pamphlet "The Foundling" tipped-in, 6ff. at beginning loose, slightly browned, original vellum, slightly yellowed and soiled, 8vo, 1776-1826.
⁂ Recipes include: "Strops for Razors"; "Black Writing Ink"; "Composition for making Moulds from Medals"; "Mr Gossetts Composition of Wax imitating Ivory"; "Wash-Balls"; "Lip Glue for extemporaneously Cementing Paper, Silk, Thin Leather &c."; "Shaving Powder"; "To mend craked Glasses"; "Mead"; "Orange Wine"; "Blew enamel" etc.