Description

[004233] [Adulteration of Bread] Manuscript Copy of Complaints Made Against Bakers in Leicestershire. No Place: No Publisher, First Edition. Folio. Unbound. Ephemera. Good. [4]p, final leaf blank, n.d. c.1815?

Very lightly browned, otherwise fairly clean

A manuscript copy of several complaints made about the adulteration of bread in Leicestershire. The examples include a visit to a Thomas Fielding, a baker from Castle Donington, “to examine his bread and to search for any unlawful ingredients in the making thereof”

The paper has the watermark of T, W & R Botfield, which Churchill dates to 1807