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Total number of records: 9704

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items9703
Archives1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Cookery Collection9704
Incunabula1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
cooking1337
cooking, english1083
home economics443
cooking, french383
food383
gastronomy232
wine and wine making196
cooking, british180
menus168
international cooking161

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England57
Great Britain57
France29
London (England)18
Ireland12
Paris (France)10
Italy9
Scotland8
Rome7
Europe6

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Heath, Ambrose (1891-1969)92
Good Housekeeping Institute (Great Britain)85
Simon, Andre Louis (1877-1970)80
Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)78
Sainsbury'S (Firm)71
Glasse, Hannah (1708-1770)59
Great Britain56
Patten, Marguerite55
Beeton, Mrs (1836-1865)47
British Broadcasting Corporation47

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Earliest dateCount
From 1500106
From 1600226
From 1700621
From 18001390
From 19006740
From 2000416

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1599104
Up to 1699225
Up to 1799569
Up to 18991240
Up to 19996506
Up to latest857

Archive Print Collection

Cookery Printed Books

Principally made up from two separate collections. Blanche Legat Leigh, Lady Mayoress of Leeds, made a gift in 1939 of cookery books which included not only historical works published in Britain but a...

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Margaretta Acworth's Georgian cookery book

Acworth, Margaretta (1794); Prochaska, Alice; Prochaska, F K; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1987

A selection of recipes from Public Record Office C107/108, with modernised verions and introduction.

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Digitised copy available on the Internet Archive as part of the UK Medical Heritage Library Project
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The art of canned food cookery

Allison, Sonia; Shepherdson, Ceri

1969

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