[RECEIPT BOOK] A 160-page (310 x 195mm.) manuscript notebook in several hands, folio, undated, containing mainly food and drink recipes and remedies including "To make Elder Wine Seignior Joanney's way", "To write without inke", for "lost haire", "Moths to kill", "My Lady Chanworth's receipt [for] Jumballs", "Cancer inward in the body. It will save life", "Snaile Water", "Dyet drink", "Aquamarabilus to cure any Poyson or the grand Pox", "The best way of brewing: September 1690", most entries late 17th to early 18th-century (marginal repairs with occasional slight loss of text, a few holes occasionally slightly affecting text), modern half morocco.

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[RECEIPT BOOK] A 160-page (310 x 195mm.) manuscript notebook in several hands, folio, undated, containing mainly food and drink recipes and remedies including "To make Elder Wine Seignior Joanney's way", "To write without inke", for "lost haire", "Moths to kill", "My Lady Chanworth's receipt [for] Jumballs", "Cancer inward in the body. It will save life", "Snaile Water", "Dyet drink", "Aquamarabilus to cure any Poyson or the grand Pox", "The best way of brewing: September 1690", most entries late 17th to early 18th-century (marginal repairs with occasional slight loss of text, a few holes occasionally slightly affecting text), modern half morocco.

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