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Title: [Cookery book].
Contributor: Drake, James, active 1825, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: about 1780?
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Likely missing some pages at the front and back of the volume.
Scope/Content: Manuscript cookery book written in a uniform late 18th century hand, including recipes for "cabbob" and "mangoo." All recipes are numbered consecutively, beginning with number 10 (part of recipe 9 is visible at the top of the first page).
Condition: Bound in contemporary leather tooled in blind; expertly rebacked with some paper repairs.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Cookbooks
Extent: 140 pages, bound ;21 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1v89n
MS.2015.003
Language: English
eng
Subject: Cooking--Early works to 1800.
Place: England
Provenance: Mr. James Drake inscribed twice on front paste-down endpaper.
Location: CLUW

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