Pryce-Lloyd family: medical receipt book
- Pryce-Lloyd, Edward
- Date:
- 1791-c. 1800
- Reference:
- MS.8469
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Volume is inscribed inside back (?formerly front) cover "Edward Pryce Lloyd", presumably Edward Pryce Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn (17 September 1768 – 3 April 1854)
Illegible inscription on back cover, with date of 1791.
55 leaves of manuscript medical recipes, mostly in the same hand, with a few culinary, cosmetic and domestic, some with attributions, followed by numerous blank pages.
At end of volume, 4 leaves with pasted-in cuttings, on hydrophobia, and one statement by the North Wales Humane Society in treating the effects of intense cold.
Publication/Creation
1791-c. 1800
Physical description
1 Volume Card covers with calf spine and corners; 12.5 x 19 cm, 127 leaves, 67 blank, some leaves cut out at back of volume
Contributors
Acquisition note
Purchased from David and Lynn Smith Booksellers, January 2007
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Location Status Access Closed stores
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Identifiers
Accession number
- 1474