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Cookery book of Lettis Vesey [manuscript], ca. 1725.

Vesey, Lettis, active approximately 1725, author.; Sangorski & Sutcliffe, binder.
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Title
Cookery book of Lettis Vesey [manuscript], ca. 1725.
Description
1 v.
Associated name
Vesey, Lettis, active approximately 1725, author.
Sangorski & Sutcliffe, binder.
Scope and content
466 numbered recipes including some household recipes and at the end bills of fare and two diagrams of a table laid with a first and second course. An entry in another hand after no. 243 states this recipe was presented to "your ladyship" by John Bacon.
Note
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Binding information
In a reddish brown Sangorski and Sutcliffe goatskin binding with plain boards, single gold and blind-tooled fillets on either side of five raised bands, and gold spine title in 2nd panel: LETTIS VESEYS BOOK
Linked resources
Manuscript Cookbooks Survey description of Folger Shakespeare Library W.b.456
Blog post about Folger Shakespeare Library W.b.456: "Early modern straws; or, quills are not just for writing", The Collation (02 October 2019)
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Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Cookbooks.

Call number
W.b.456

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