The accomplish'd lady's 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 loveliness 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
Date:
1677
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Also known as

Phisical cabinet
Physical cabinet
New and excellent experiments and secrets in the art of angling
Complete cooks guide

Publication/Creation

London : printed for B. Harris, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Stationers Arms in Swithins Rents near the Royal Exhange, 1677.

Physical description

4 unnumbered pages, 379+ pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations

Edition

The second edition enlarged.

References note

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) W3268A

Notes

Frontis. = plate.
On A1v: Licensed Rog. L'strange.
With an index at end of text.
"The phisical cabinet" (p. 117); "New and excellent experiments and secrets in the art of angling"( p. 191); and "The complete cooks guide" (p. 223) each have separate dated title pages; pagination and register is continuous.
Copy has print show-through; lacks all after p. 379 which has catchword: Stew'd.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2203:14) s1999 miun s

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