Beschreibung:

Medical & Cookery.- [Collection of recipes], manuscript, c. 150pp, with a 16pp. work by William Varley at beginning, together 176pp., in a variety of hands, 2 recipe manuscripts loosely inserted, browned, new endpapers, original reversed calf-backed boards, rubbed, 77 x 200mm., 1815. ⁂ Includes at beginning a 16 page fair copy of a work by William Varley, A Few Observations on Art, published in 1816. Recipes include: "Elixir for the toothache"; "Saturnine Lotion - Dr. Bishop's receipt - Tenterden"; "Samson Maynard's Receipt from Mulled Wine"; "Ginger Wine"; "Soda Cake"; "Captn. Appleton's receipt for making Punch"; "Marmalade de Pompon - From Mr Ian Macey"; "Guernsey Hearts"; "Lobster Pudding"; "To fry salt Cod fish"; "Napoleon's Pectoral Pills"; "Sheep's head soup... (Cobbett)"; "Windsor Soap"; "Cholera Morbus" etc.