An early 18th century lady's MS commonplace book, of Mary Br...

Hammer

£480

An early 18th century lady's MS commonplace book, of Mary Bridges and inscribed from September 1737, with a later This Book for Mary ***** by her G. Mother M B**k 1799, compiling cookery recipes, further recipes for ills and ailments, original and favourite published passages of verse and prose, Christian and moral reflections and maxims, mirror-inscribed from front-middle and back-middle, partially indexed contents to back with some pages of the text numbered in Arabic numerals, enclosed with a loose ink MS miniature Lord's Prayer as a sphere 5cm wide, enclosing contemporary calf, the boards gilt-embossed with a double-line fillett, the spine with foliate spandrels and bosses within raised bands, 16mo