Recipes and remedies of Evans family [manuscript], [1710-77].
1710
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Details
Title
Recipes and remedies of Evans family [manuscript], [1710-77].
Created/published
[London], [1710-77]
Description
[42], [35] p. ; 21 x 16 x 20 cm
Note
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Condition
Binding badly spayed. Loose and missing leaves. With 3 loose items laid in at front (actually 2 items, but one is split in half).
Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Cookbooks.
Cookbooks.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 272515
Folger-specific note
Ordered from Dean Cooke, Manuscripts & Rare Books, D9535, 2021-10-06, Cat. "First words: catalogue of manuscripts & rare books to be exhibited by Dean Cooke Rare Books Ltd on stand A7 at the firsts fair Saatchi Gallery London 21 - 24 October 2021.", item #5. From dealer's description: "[EVANS, Family]. Manuscript Miscellany of Recipes, Remedies, and Book Collection. [London. Circa 1710-77. Dated from text, watermark, and bookseller’s label]. Quarto (206 mm x 162 mm x 20 mm). Lacking some leaves. Pages numbered: 3-6, 23-56, 59-62, 65-116, 119-142, 153-172 (inc. blanks). A total of 121 recipes and remedies on 81 text pages (42 pp. remedies, 35 pp. recipes, 4 pp. book list), plus a few brief scattered notes, and 2 loosely inserted leaves (1 remedy, and 1 acrostic poem). Contemporary vellum, soiled, wear to edges, boards very warped. Text browned, stained, some leaves loose, and fraying at the edges. Watermark: Coat of Arms (Haewood 364, which he dates to circa 1710). [...] The majority of the recipes precede Mrs Evans’s 1724 inscription and may confidently be dated circa 1710-20. This earlier scribe, who may or may not have been a member of the Evans family, was likely the original purchaser of the volume from Joseph Marshall. They contribute approximately 72 recipes organised into discrete sections (18 medical, 53 culinary, 1 for ink) separated by around 50 blank leaves. There were almost certainly more remedies, but these have since been torn out or simply lost (see pagination notes above)."
Folger accession
272515