Commonplace book containing recipes, original and copied poems, newspaper cuttings, and a child's drawings : Commonplace book c. 1720-1830.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commonplace books.

English poetry--19th century.

English poetry.

English poetry--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 volume (184 pages)

Place of Publication:

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2006.

Summary:

Contains: (1) 65 recipes written on 26 pages during the early part of the eighteenth century, from about 1720 onwards, for making large quantities of cordials, probably for the use of a large household or for commercial supply; (2) Many original and copied English poems written in the mid-eighteenth century from both ends of the book, including laments to 'Dear Polly' from friends at Exeter, Pomeroy, etc.; (3) Many child's drawings and jottings in the centre of the book, including a few Latin declensions and phrases; (4) Many nineteenth-century press-cuttings pasted on to the manuscript pages containing further English poems and historical notes, the extant dates on them being 1824 and 1830

Notes:

AMDigital Reference:Lt 117

The compilers of this collection are unknown. Written from both ends in several hands during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, title on the front cover which reads 'Book [for?] Receipts'. This title is at the opposite end from the recipe section and upsidedown in relation to it. There is marbling on both inside covers and the only extant endpaper. The manuscript is worn and damaged

Local Notes:

Bound in contemporary vellum, dust darkened, with remains of clasps, tooled, with a gilt-embossed decoration.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.