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B. Bolton, Recipe Book. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
B. Bolton, Recipe Book
- Date:
- c. 1819
- Reference:
- MS.8765
- Archives and manuscripts
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Description
Collection of cookery, medical, household veterinary, and some cosmetic, recipes, manuscript in several hands, index at end
"B. Bolton, 10th February 1819", on flyleaf, and f. 1 is "List of Characters in Physic" [apothecary measures] with the same date
Contents include: "Cowslip Wine"; "Distemper Balls for Dogs" "Medicine for the Hooping Cough"; "Geneva" [gin]; "Sheep ointment"; "To make 64 Gallons of Peppermint Cordial"; "Waterproof Composition for Leather"; "Permanent Ink"; "A Cheap and Lasting Paint"; "For the gripes in Horses", tabulation of Poisons with their symptoms and correctives;"lues venerea"; "pro Gonorrhoea"; "Eruption of the Face" [for which arsenic is recommended]; "Chilly vinegar"; glues, varnishes, polishes; "Nervous Complaints"; "Scouring in Cattle"; "Alpine Cream"; "Instantaneous Matches"; "Paradise and the Peri" [poem]; List of Books
Publication/Creation
c. 1819
Physical description
1 volume 120pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red throughout, a few ff. in pencil, slightly browned, original vellum, soiled, covers slightly splayed, 8vo
Acquisition note
Purchased at Bloomsbury Book Auctions, March 2011
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores
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Accession number
- 1807