Lot 336

SALEROOM NOTICE: DATES FROM C.1794-1831. Manuscript Recipe and commonplace book: food, drink, home remedies and varnishes,








Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
£625
Description
"Mr Tarn's Book of Recipes and Common Place Observations, 1794, After Many Years Practical experience Particularly in Varnishes proper for varnishing fine Paintings", c.272 manuscript pages containing recipes for food, drink, home remedies, varnishes, other products for colouring and restoring artworks and antiques, and such like, another section includes manuscript copies of academic writings and 2pp. of text in a runic code, Mr Tarn's name and the title of the book features on each endpaper, 24 x 20cm, eighteenth century half calf, very rubbed, covers detached







