Early English Meals and Manners

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[1] Early English Text Society (information and list of titles) [2] Introductory pages with full table of contents [3] General Preface (“Forewords”) [4] Preface to Russell, Boke of Nurture [5] Collations and Corrigenda (see beginning of “Corrigenda” for details of corrections) [6] John Russell’s Boke of Nurture with detailed table of contents [7] Notes to Boke of Nurture (longer linenotes, printed as a separate section in original text) [8] Lawrens Andrewe on Fish [9] “Illustrative Extracts” (titles listed in Table of Contents) and Recipes [10] Boke of Keruynge and Boke of Curtasye, with Notes [11] Booke of Demeanor and following shorter selections [12] The Babees Book and following shorter selections [13] Parallel texts of The Little Children’s Boke and Stans Puer ad Mensam [14] General Index (excluding Postscript) [15] Postscript “added after the Index had been printed” [16] Collected Sidenotes (section added by transcriber: editor’s sidenotes can be read as a condensed version of full text)

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Early English Text Society.

Original Series, 32.