Text set / [Cookery book written in several hands].

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Title: [Cookery book written in several hands].
Contributor: Munby, A. N. L. (Alan Noel Latimer), 1913-1974, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [17--?]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
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Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript. Varied page sizes.
Scope/Content: Manuscript book of cookery recipes, written in several different hands. Many of the recipes are attributed to their creators and one recipe was evidently sent via post to "J. Codrington" from "Mrs Blome at Mr Newmans house" in Kent. The pages are of widely varying sizes and it is unclear if they were gathered into a volume by the original collector at an early date, or if they were compiled by a modern collector and bound together.
Condition: Bound in modern marbled boards.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Cookbooks
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Extent: [36] p., bound ;32 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1d61w
f MS.1968.004
Subject: Cooking, English--18th century.
Place: England
Provenance: Bookplate of A.N.L. Munby on front paste-down endpaper; summary description of the volume, probably in Munby's hand, on front free endpaper.
Location: CLUW

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