Recipe Book of Diana Astry [manuscript], 17 century.
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Recipe Book of Diana Astry [manuscript], 17 century.
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1 volume.
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Manuscripts (documents)
Cookbooks.
Cookbooks.
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FAST ACC 272146
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "The Recipe Book of Diana Astry COOKERY. FOOD and DRINK. WOMEN. Astry, Diana [married name Orlebar] (bap. 1671, d. 1716) Book of recipes. Manuscript on paper. Henbury, Gloucestershire: Compiled ca. 1701- ca. 1708 $20,000.00 Quarto: 19.5 x 15.5 cm. [7] lvs. [197] pp. UNIQUE MANUSCRIPT. Bound in contemporary blind-ruled vellum, some soiling and wear, upper hinge starting. Internally very fine. First few index lvs. split down the center where ruled, no loss. Neatly written in brown ink throughout. Provenance: 1. Diana Astry, ca. 1708, 2. Bedfordshire Historical RS, deaccessioned 1960. 3. Private collection. The celebrated recipe book of Diana Astry, who is featured, on the strength of this volume, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, as 'diarist and compiler of recipe books'. With another related book: The ladies most elegant and useful lottery Pocket-Book" an almanack kept by Mary Orlebar in 1777". Ordered from Liber Antiquus, D9395, 2020-06-26, email quote.
Folger accession
272146