28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 94
 

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Glasse (Hannah). The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy. To which are added, One Hundred and...

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


 

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