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Receipts from the experienced English housekeeper
1 volume (unpaged) ; 20 x 16 cm + 7 loose leaves + 1 typed transcript (50 leaves ; 28 cm)
Approximately 80 unnumbered pages of recipes for foods, followed by 7 loose leaves of various recipes. 22 unnumbered pages at the end of the volume, dos à dos fashion, contain primarily medicinal formulas, including remedies for dropsy, cholera, and cancer. 47 unnumbered leaves in the middle of the volume are blank.
The Cushing Library/Chapman Texas Collection copy is part of the Floyd & Louise Chapman Texas & Borderlands Collection.
Signed and dated "Melvira Sill Poe, Augusta Georgia, February 6, 1833."
The "Cookery part" is partly based on The experienced English housekeeper by Elizabeth Raffald, a popular and oft-reprinted English imprint.
Inscribed in pencil on front paste-down: D. H. Alexander, 1311 Main Street, Richmond, Va.