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RECEIPT BOOK, ENGLISH -- An 83pp. manuscript notebook, 4°, inscribed on front free endpaper: "Mrs. Mary Ockold: Her Receipt Booke 1722," with recipes in several hands throughout, including "A Partridge Pye," "A Venison Pastey," "To make French Bread," "To Preserve Green Apricocks [sic]," and "To make Strong Mead," contemporary vellum (section of spine lacking, bowed); and 2 others, including another contemporary manuscript receipt book. (2)