West, Elizabeth.

with a range of recipes for pickles and preserves, meat dishes, vegetables ("Brockely & eggs"), and desserts ("The Floating island a pretty Dish for the Middle of a table at a Second Course or for Supper"), with 14 pages of additional recipes tipped-in, in total 55 pages, blanks, folio (325 x 210mm.), in several hands, mostly eighteenth-century, dated Salisbury, 11 February 1703, blind-tooled calf, rebacked, covers scuffed, spotting

Elizabeth West, Salisbury, 1703; K. Wigmore, Wargrave, 1928-1933; Audrey Skimming, Taplow House, Taplow, acquired August 1933

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate
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