The forme of cury : a roll of ancient English cookery / compiled, about A.D. 1390, by the master-cooks of King Richard II, presented afterwards to Queen Elizabeth, by Edward, lord Stafford, and now in the possession of Gustavus Brander, esq ; illustrated with notes, and a copious index, or glossary ; a manuscript of the editor, of the same age and subject, with other congruous matters, are subjoined ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pegge, Samuel, 1704-1796.

Contributor:

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

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking--Early works to 1800.

Cooking.

Cooking, English.

Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.

Penn Provenance:

Aresty, Esther B. (donor)

Brander, Gustavus (autograph)

Payne, Ralph (inscription)

Physical Description:

iv, xxxvi, 188 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : portrait, facsimile ; 22 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by J. Nichols, printer to the Society of Antiquaries, 1780.

Notes:

Dedication signed: S. Pegge.

Signatures: a b-e f A-X Y Z-2B .

Includes index.

Local Notes:

This is a presentation copy signed by Gustavus Brander, curator of the British Museum, who owned the original manuscript from which Pegge worked.

Imperfect: front. wanting.

Athenaeum copy: Gift: Mrs. L.W. King, 1967.

Athenaeum copy: Inscribed by Brander.

OCLC:

13794092