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Title

The great and rare art of candying, cooking, distilling, preserving, pickling and physick containing 2 hundred thirty six receipts or above never before this made publick now made publick thro the intercession of some friends for the use good & benefit of the country :

Authors

• Statham, Mary
• Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Aresty, Esther B, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 251
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915808393503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122480008
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3j860

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1724

Place

England?

Summary

Recipe book. Contains a table of contents at the end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution from title page. Heading of title page: "The first sheet."
   
• Paper somewhat brittle; edges fraying.
   

Extent

43 leaves : 161 x 102 (148 x 91) mm bound to 174 x 110 mm

Foliation

Paper, 43; [ii], 1-77, [vii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary stamped paper. Inside upper cover contains a stamped coat of arms, partially trimmed away, with the legend "Super Fine."

Layout

Written out to the edges of each page, leaving little or no margins or gutter on most pages. On some pages a few words are lost at the edge or bottom.

Script

Written in a cursive script, possibly in the hand of Mary Statham (p. i).

Provenance

• Gift of Esther Bradford Aresty, 1994.
   

Subjects topical

• Cooking, English--Early works to 1800
• Cooking, English

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• cookbooks
• recipes
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• Recipe book
• 18th century
• English
• England
• Paper

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