MANUSCRIPT. – WINE. [A hand-written pharmacopeia. N.p.: 1845-1898.] 67pp., manuscript, 8vo (185 x 133mm.) Includes 17pp. of hand-written cures and remedies in a single legible hand, 20pp. of recipes for various types of wine, 7pp. for recipes including 2 rhyming recipes and 19pp. of hand-written poems, and 10pp. of contemporary newspaper clippings mounted to leaves and pastedowns. (Some leaves loosening, toning.) Contemporary boards (spine lacking, boards detached). Note: a curious and thematically coherent manuscript. The newspaper clippings relate to Annie Besant and theosophy. One of the poems is called ‘What is Religion’ by William Denton, and is progressive and sceptical, speaking of a religion that ‘seeks not to bless men by force or by fear/But draws them with love to a god very near’. Another poem is by Charles Mackay (author of ‘Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds’) called ‘Little Fools and Great Ones’. The rhyming recipes are – with internal rhymes – ‘The Prince of Plum Puddings’ and with line-end rhymes ‘Eve’s Pudding’. On a different note, one of the wine recipes is called ‘Regent’s Punch’, created by the Prince Regent before he became George IV. There are also recipes for ‘Cherry Brandy’, ‘Gooseberry Champagne’, ‘Honey Wine’, ‘Walnut Catsnip’, ‘Egg Wine’, ‘Milk Wine’ and ‘Excellent Ginger Beer’, amongst others.