The Accomplish'd lady's delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery : containing, I. The art of preserving and candying fruits & flowers and the making of all sorts of conserves, syrups, and jellies. II. The physical cabinet, or, Excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery ... 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.

Date:
1675
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Also known as

Accomplisht-ladys delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery
Accomplished lady's delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery

Publication/Creation

London : Printed for B. Harris and are to be sold at his shop, at the Stationers Arms in Swithins Rents by the Royall Exchange, 1675.

Physical description

4 unnumbered pages, 382 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 12mo (15 cm)

Notes

Added t.p. and frontispiece are engraved.
Pref. signed: T.P.
Has been attributed to Hannah Woolley.
Signatures: A² B-R¹² S⁴.
"The physical cabinet", "New and excellent experiments and secrets in the art of angling" and "The compleat cook’s guide" each have a separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.
Copy 1. Note: Imperfect and incomplete: pp. 307 onwards chewed and defective; pp. 95-238, 313-4 and all after R12 wanting. Bound in 17th century calf. Manuscript inscription inside both front and back cover: Anna Edgson Her Book 1736.

References note

ESTC R8138
Wing 3268

Exhibitions note

Exhibited in ‘The Cult of Beauty’ at Wellcome Collection, London, 26 October 2023 – 28 April 2024

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    EPB/A/61184

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