MANUSCRIPT, RECIPES & REMEDIES - A manuscript on paper of recipes and remedies, written in several different hands, two, three or four to a page, with an index on the front pastedown of one volume (some leaves bound in upside-down, others detached or loosely-inserted), [late 18th-century/early 19th-century, with the date 1822 appearing in one volume], 2 volumes, c.250-pages, small 4to (205 x 165mm). Contemporary full vellum (rather worn, one volume lacking the spine, stained, inner hinges weak). Provenance: "Messrs. Cockerell, Trail & Co., Calcutta, Bengall. London Agents. Messrs. Wm. Paxton & Co., No. 24 Surrey Street, Strand, London" (old inscription on the front pastedown of one vol.); Mary Eames (old signature); various names ("Mrs Eames", "Miss Ashe", "Mrs Marshall", "Miss Drake", etc.) appended to some recipes; Clement Ingleby, Haslemere (modern label). Cockerell, Trail & Co., later Palmer & Co., was at one time the largest Agency House in British India, specialising in the export of Indigo. It closed down in 1830. Its connection with the present manuscript is unclear. (2)
