[Recipe book].
Mary Ann Kirby
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1829
Materials
Paper
Place of origin
Bristol
Collection
Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire
NT 3201793
Summary
Bibliographic description
[unpaged ;. 19cm.] Bound lined exercise book with culinary recipes at beginning of volume and medical recipes at end. With a letter to the Times pasted in, dated 1856 "Bleeding in apoplexy and sunstroke". Some notes in another, later hand. Provenance: inscribed "Mary Anne Kirby July 1829". Bookseller's ticket: Davey & Muskett, booksellers, binders & stationery. No. 1 Broad Street, Bristol". Binding: half maroon straight-grained morocco; marbled endpaper. Gold-lettered on spine: M.S.S.
Provenance
Bequest of George Bernard Shaw, 1950
Makers and roles
Mary Ann Kirby