Volume 2

Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets : Six papers read to the Archæological society of Glasgow April 1882-January 1888 / by John Ferguson.

  • John Ferguson
Date:
1895-1915
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Credit: Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets : Six papers read to the Archæological society of Glasgow April 1882-January 1888 / by John Ferguson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    p. 127. Receipt 1. 70 make a Lamb-Pye. Firft, cut your Lamb into Pieces, and then fea- fon it with Nutmegs, Cloves, and Mace, and fome Salt with Currans, Raifins of the Sun, and fweet butter; and if you will eat it hot, when it is baked put in fome Yolks of Eggs, with Wine-Vinegar, and Sugar beaten together, but if you will eat it cold, put in no Eggs, but only Vinegar and Sugar. To make a Lamb Pye. Firft, cut your Lamb into Pieces, and then Seafon it with Nutmegs : Cloves, and Mace, and fome Salt with Currans, Raifins of the Sun, and Sweet butter ; and if you will eat it hot, when it is baked, put in fome Yolks of Eggs, with Wine-Vinegar and Sugar beaten together, but if you will eat it cold, put it(j-rV) no Eggs, but only Vi- negar and Sugar. p. 161. Receipt 127. Title occupies a separate line. Occupies part of a line only. And so on, showing that they differ throughout. Similar parallelisms have been noted in the case of Albertus Magnus, the fifth edition of Arts Treasury, the fifth edition of White’s Rich Cabinet, etc. Westwood and Satchell * quote this book, and say that it was attributed to Mrs. Hannah Wolley. The editions they mention are of 1675, I^77> 1683, 1684, 1685, 1686, 1719, 1720, etc. They give a reference to another book, The Compleat Servant-maid, or the Cooks Guide, undated, which they announce as a re-issue of this work, with a new title. If so, it must not be confused with the work, with a similar title, mentioned in § 101 below. They are obviously different. Arber quotes the 1675 edition, and, so far as one can gather from the Index, ascribes it to Mrs. Wolley. t 97. The next edition (B.M. 1037. e. 24.) has its title identical with that of the Museum copy of the fourth edition, except that it is dated 1685, and is stated to be “The fifth edition enlarged.” It, too, contains A to I in twelves, K six; or, pp. [4] 208 [12]; and it has not only the engraved title,, and the woodcuts of fishing, of fish and of the forms of pies, but it has the portrait as well, though rather worn. Prefixed to this copy are two tables of the dumb alphabet and “A True Lover’s Knot,” but they do not form part of the book. Comparisons of the quotations above given, with the corresponding passages in this so-called fifth edition, show that it agrees exactly with the copy in the British Museum, and not with that which I have. I conclude, therefore, that the fifth edition consists * Bibliotheca Piscatoria, London 1883, p. 128. + Arber, The Term Catalogues, 1903, I., p. 198.