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Total number of records: 61

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Archives	42
Books and printed items	16
Objects	3

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Cookery Collection	61
Brotherton Collection	1
Incunabula	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
recipes	35
cooking	25
home economics	16
medicine	9
cooking, english	7
cooking, european	3
cooking, french	3
gastronomy	3
book collecting	2
cooking, italian	2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Hodgkin, John (Bibliographer)	11
Leigh, Blanche Legat	10
Anding, Blanche	3
Bennett, Arnold (1867-1931)	2
Bowes, Blanche	2
E Kidder	2
Kidder, Edward	2
Moore, Doris Langley	2
Moore, Doris Langley (1902-1989)	2
Pomiane, Edouard De (1875-1964)	2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1500	2
From 1600	3
From 1700	6
From 1800	19
From 1900	26
From 2000	2

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 599	2
Up to 1599	2
Up to 1699	2
Up to 1799	5
Up to 1899	16
Up to 1999	31
Up to latest	2

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Shelf-list of old cookery books in the possession of Mrs Blanche Leigh

Leigh, Blanche Legat

c.1939

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Correspondence with, and receipted accounts from, booksellers in connection with the purchase of old cookery books by Mrs Blanche Leigh

Leigh, Blanche Legat

1932-1938

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Cookery book

18--

Nine cookery recipes, followed by 35 blank pages. Contents note on front cover by Mrs Blanche Leigh

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Cookery book

18--

Contains: (1) 2 pp. index; (2) 50 pp. cookery and household recipes, the final 9 pp. being unnumbered

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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 book of fruit bottling

Bradley, Edith; Crooke, May

1907

"A series of papers... by Miss May Crooke, which appeared in 'Farm and garden. 1905,' form the basis of [this] book." -p. vii.

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Correspondence to and from Bateman and research for article on recipes written in verse, printed copy of John Keat’s Porridge by V McCabe, reference list for Recipes in Verse, typed and hand-written...

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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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