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Recipe book, circa 1815-1831 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 volume (160 pages)
Abstract:
This volume contains 144 culinary, household, and medicinal recipes created or compiled approximately between 1815 and 1831 in England. Before the recipes in this volume is a copy of William Fleetwood Varley's, A few observations on art with notices relative to the various exhibitions, repositories of art, etc. William Fleetwood Varley (1785-1856) was a British artist and art instructor.

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Medical recipe book and culinary and household recipe book, not before 1799

Extent:
2 volumes (366, 368 pages)
Abstract:
These two volumes contain 357 recipes and were written and compiled by an unknown creator starting in 1799, likely in France. It is unclear when the creator completed these volumes. One volume contains medical remedies and the other contains pantry, culinary, rural economy, and household recipes.

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