28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST
Glasse (Hannah). The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy. To which are added, One Hundred and Fifty New Receipts, Edinburgh: Alexander Donaldson, 1774. 12mo in half-sheets (172 x 100 mm), contemporary calf, folding bill of fare, wear to spine, occasional spotting, a few leaves dog-eared, together with a manuscript commonplace book of poems and ballads, c.1775 and later, 17 leaves, loose in contemporary sheep covers (with faint manuscript date 1775[?] to front), contents including 'Desponding Negroe' (begins 'On Africas wide plains where the lions now roaring'), 'The Miller of Oxfordshire' ('A miller I am, ever heart whole and free'), 'Corporal Casey' ('When I was at home I was merry and frisky, My dad kept a pig & my mother sold whisky'), and similar (qty: 2) ESTC T90934 (Glasse: two copies only in UK libraries).
Sold for £280
Estimated at £100 - £150
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 28th Jul, 2021
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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