The Queens closet opened. : Incomparable secrets in physick, chirurgery, preserving, candying, and cookery; as they were presented to the Qveen by the most experienced persons of our times, many whereof they were honoured with her own practice, when she pleased to descend to these more private recreations. Never before published. Transcribed from the true copies of her Majesties own receipt books, by W.M. one of her late servants.
- W. M
- Date:
- 1655
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
[London] : Printed for Nathaniel Brook at the Angel in Cornhill, 1655.
Physical description
12 unnumbered pages, 296 pages, 24 unnumbered pages; 123 pages, 9 unnumbered pages : engr. frontispiece (portrait) ; 12mo
References note
Wing M96
Wing M88
Ferguson (Inventions) Suppl. v. 34-38
ESTC R208567
Thomason, E.1519[1]
Wing (2nd ed.), M96
Notes
Separate t.p. to each work but continuous pagination for the first two.
With: A queens delight, or the art of preserving, conserving, and candying [And] The compleat cook.
Copy 1. Pt. 1 Imperfect: pp. [12], 191, [1] only - 'Queens closet opened'. Lacks sig. Al (port.). Stamp 'W. Musgrave' on verso of t.p. (possibly Sir William Musgrave [1735-1800]). Occasional 21st century [?] manuscript annotations.
Copy 1. Pt. 3 'Compleat cook' lacks sigs. Al (t.p.) and F3-6 (table and final blank leaf) and was formerly wrongly identified as an 18 cent. ed. (see WHML Cat. ii. p. 380). Manuscript annotation "Iodr" [?] on leaf 43.
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Where to find it
Pt. 1
Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/A/34553.v1Pt. 3
Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/A/34553.v3