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 1670
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1685
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Added engraved title page: Accomplisht ladys delight. In preserving, physick, beautifying and cookery
Caption title on p. 1: Art of preserving, and candying fruits and flowers, as also of making all sorts of conserves, syrups and jellies
Caption title on p. 66: Excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery
Caption title on p. 88: Beautifying waters, oyls, oyntments, and powders, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body
Caption title on p. 102: Supplement of some rare beautifying waters, oyls, ointments, and powders
Caption title on p. 107: New and excellent experiments and secrets in the art of angling. Being directions for the whole art
Caption title on p. 127: Compleat cook's guide or Directions for the dressing of all flesh, fowl, and fish, both in the English and French mode ...
Directions for the dressing of all flesh, fowl, and fish, both in the English and French mode

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London : Printed for Benjamin Harris, at the Stationers Arms and Anchor, in the Piazza, at the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill, 1685.

Physical description

4 unnumbered pages, 154 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 156-208 pages, 12 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plate : illustrations

Edition

The fifth edition enlarged.

References note

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) W3272

Notes

With engraved frontispiece.
With six final index leaves.
Text and register are continuous despite pagination.
Stained and tightly bound; some print show-through.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2163:11) s1999 miun s

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