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MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK, MARY KEYS 1753 [dated on front fixed endpaper]
Estimate:
$500 - $700
Sold
$1,300
Timed Auction
163: Rare Books
Description
MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK
MARY KEYS 1753 [dated on front fixed endpaper]
Manuscript recipe collection, bearing the name Mary Keys Book 1753 and the names May Koyls' Book 1758 Thomas Koyl, [in the same hand, presumably written after her marriage]. Numeration Table on endpaper and notes regarding various psalms. Unpaginated, [10] leaves of culinary and wine recipes, they include Cambridge Pudding, To Stew a Carpe, To Pot Ells, to make Saragossa Wine, To make Aldor Wine, To make Cowslip wine, Strong Mead, etc. [13] leaves at back blank. Written in the same 18th century hand, lightly soiled and marked with some small patches of browning. 200 x 160mm, bound in the vellum with blind ruled borders, hinges firm and intact, VG copy in the original vellum binding.