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The compleat servant-maid; or, The young maidens tutor : directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any sort of these employments. Viz. Waiting-woman, house-keeper, chamber-maid, cook-maid, under-cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid, scullery-maid. Whereunto is added a supplement containing the choicest receipts, and rarest secrets in physick and chirurgery. Composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young maidens.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1685
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Textus roffensis. Accedunt, Professionum antiquorum Angliae Episcoporum Formulae, De Canonica obedientia Archiepiscopis Cantuariensibus praestanda, et Leonardi Hutteni Dissertatio, Anglice conscripta, de Antiquitatibus Oxoniensibus. E Codicibus Mss. descripsit ediditque Tho. Hearnius.
Ernulf, Bishop of Rochester, 1040-1124.Date: M.DCC.XX. [1720]
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The gentlewoman that lived in Red-Lyon-Court, is removed to Racket Court, near Fleet-bridge, the third door on the right-hand : Who hath a most excellent wash to beautifie the face, as many of the greatest quality can testifie: its vertue is to take out all manner of wrinckles, freckles, pimples, redness, morphew, sun-burn, yellowness, or any other accident, caused too often by mercurial poysonous washes.
Date: [1690?]
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Delightes for ladies : to adorne their persons, tables, closets and distillatories. With beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1603
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In St. Martins Court in St. Martins-lane; at the sign of the golden heart, up one pair of stairs, liveth a gentlewoman, who, by the long experience.
Date: [1690?]
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Delights for ladies : to adorn their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories. With beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters. Read, practice, and censure.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608Date: 1647
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The accomplish'd ladies delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery : Containing I. The art of preserving, and candying fruits and flowers, and the making of all sorts of conserves, syrups, and jellies. II. The physical cabinet, or excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery, together with some rare beautifying waters, to adorn and add lovliness to the face and body: and also some new and excellent secrets and experiments in the art of angling. III. The compleat cooks guide, or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish, both in the English and French mode, with all sauces and sallets; and the making pyes, pasties, tarts, and custards, with the forms and shapes of many of them.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1685
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Gli ornamenti delle donne / scritti per M. Giovanni Marinello ; et diuisi in quattro libri. Ne quali si racconta, come vaghe, e belle possono con l'arte apparir le donne. Con due tauole copiosissime, vna de' capitoli, e l'altra d'alcune cose particolari ; opera vtile, & necessaria ad ogni gentile persona.
Marinello, Giovanni, active 16th century.Date: 1610
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The gentlewoman that lived in Red-Lyon-Court, is removed to Racket Court, near Fleet-bridge, the third door on the right-hand : Who hath a most excellent wash to beautifie the face, as many of the greatest quality can testify: its virtue is to take out all manner of wrinckles, freckles, pimples, redness, morphew, sun-burn, yellowness, or any other accident, caused too often by mercurial poysonous washes.
Date: [1690?]
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The water of talk, with divers essences and rarities : There is now made by that famous Italian Pecune, a water of talk, and pearl, the clearest and brightest of all waters; and is of that excellent quality for beautifying the face, that in a short time will turn the brownest complexion to a lovely white.
Date: [1670?]
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Abdeker: or, the art of preserving beauty. Translated from an Arabic manuscript.
Le Camus, Antoine, 1722-1772.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]
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Delights for ladies : to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories with beauties, banquets, perfumes, and waters.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1635
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The gentlewoman who lived in Red-Lyon-Court, is now removed to Racket-Court near Fleet-brigge, the third door on the right-hand, who hath a most excellent wash to beautifie the face : as many of the greatest quality can testify: its virtue is to take out all manner of wrinckles, freckles, pimples, redness, morphew, sunburn, yellowness, or any other accident, caused too often by mercurial poysonous washes.
Date: [1690?]
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The lady's companion: or, an infallible guide to the fair sex. Containing, observations for their conduct thro' all ages and circumstances of life: in which are comprised all parts of good housewifry, particularly rules, and above two thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery. I. Making all sorts of soops and sauces. II. Dressing flesh, fish, and fowl; this last illustrated with cuts, shewing how every fowl, &c. is to be truss'd for the spit. III. Making 100 different sorts of puddings. IV. The whole art of pastry, in making pies, tarts, &c. V. Receipts for pickling, collaring, potting, &c. VI. For preserving, making creams, jellies, and all manner of confectionary. Vii. Rules and directions for setting out dinners, suppers, and grand entertainments. To which is added, several bills of fare for every month in the year, and the shapes of pies, tarts, and pasties. With instructions for marketing. Also receipts for making the choicest cordials for the closet: brewing beers, ales, &c. Making all sorts of English wines, cyder, mum, mead, metheglin, vinegar, verjuice, catchup, &c. Some fine perfumes, pomatums, cosmeticks, and other beautifiers. With 300 valuable receipts in physick. ...
Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]
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The Accomplish'd lady's delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery : containing I. the art of preserving and candying fruits & flowers ..., II. the physical cabinet, or, excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery : together with some rare beautifying waters, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body : and also some new and excellent secrets and experiments in the art of angling, 3. the compleat cooks guide, or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish, both in the English and French mode.
Date: 1675
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Curiosa arcana: being curious secrets, artificial and natural. In three parts. Containing, in the first part, Choice receipts to prevent or cure the plague, agues, fevers, and all other distempers incident to man. Secrets in Japanning, painting, and varnishing, so as to imitate marble, Jasper-Stone, &c. To dye skins a sine black that never fades. Secrets in hunting, fishing, fowling, house-keeping. To cure diseases in horses, hogs, dogs, &c. To destroy all sorts of vermin in house or field. Directions to beautifie the face, and cure diseases in women and children. To make perfumes, cordial waters, snuffs, to preserve wine, with other secrets of that nature. To order gardens for fruit, flowers, &c. To make artificial pearl and jewels; also fire-works. Receipts in cookery, and to make Sweetmeats, &c. To take spots or stains out of linnen or woollen. To make divers forts of ink. In the second part, the art of moulding, and casting medals in lead, tin, silver, copper, plaister of Paris, wax, or otherwise, as well hollow as solid. In the third part, excellent secrets for beautifying and rendering the face lively and agreeable. With several choice and approved secrets for beautifying the body, in several particulars. Try'd and approv'd by the Sieur Lemery, apothecary to the French King. From the last edition in French; which contains near as much more as any other ormer edition. To which is added, a supplement of divers curiosities by the translator. The whole illustrated with copper plates, adapted to the several subjects.
Date: [1711]
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The compleat servant-maid; or, The young maidens tutor : Directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any of these employments. Viz. Waiting-woman, house-keeper, chamber-maid, cook-maid, under cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid, scullery-maid. Whereunto is added a supplement containing the choicest receipts, and rarest secrets in physick and chyrurgery. Composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young maidens.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1683
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Delights for ladies : to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories; with beauties, banquets, perfumes, and waters. Reade, practise, and censure.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1628
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The toilet of Flora; or, a collection of the most simple and approved methods of preparing baths, essences, pomatums, powders, perfumes, and sweet-scented waters. With receipts for cosmetics of every kind, that can smooth and brighten the Skin, give Force to Beauty, and take off the Appearance of Old Age and Decay. for the use of the ladies.
Buc'hoz, Pierre-Joseph, 1731-1807.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]
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The accomplish'd ladies delight, in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery : Containing I. The art of preserving and candying fruits and flowers; and the making of all sorts of conserves, syrups, and jellies. II. The physical cabinet: or, excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery; together with some beautifying waters, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body: and also some new and excellent receipts relating to the female sex: and for the general good of families, is added the true receipt for making that famous cordial drink Daffy's elixir salutis. III. The compleat cook's guide: or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish, both in the English and French mode; with all sorts of sauces and sallets: and the making pyes, pasties, tarts, and custards, with the forms and shapes of many of them.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: [1696]
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Delights for ladies : to adorn their persons, tables, closet's and distillatories: with beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters. Read, practise, and censure.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608Date: 1654
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The toilet of Flora; or, a collection of the most simple and approved methods of preparing baths, essences, pomatums, powders, perfumes, and sweet-scented waters. With receipts for cosmetics of every kind ... for the use of ladies / [Anon].
Date: 1784
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Delights for ladies : to adorn their persons, tables, closets and distillatories: with beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters. Read, practice, and censure.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608Date: 1651
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Abdeker: or, the art of preserving beauty. Translated from an Arabic manuscript.
Le Camus, Antoine, 1722-1772.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]
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Princesses Powder.
Date: [1695]