The queen-like closet: or, Rich cabinet : stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex. To which is added, A supplement, presented to all ingenious ladies, and gentlewomen. By Hannah Woolley.
- Woolley, Hannah, active 1670
- Date:
- 1684
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About this work
Also known as
Rich cabinet
Publication/Creation
London : printed for R. Chiswel at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and T. Sawbridge at the Three Flower-de-Luces in Little-Britain, 1684.
Physical description
12 unnumbered pages, 144, 155-259, 250-264 pages, 46 unnumbered pages, 142 pages, 2 unnumbered pages
Edition
The fifth edition.
References note
Wing (2nd ed., 1994) W3286
Notes
With added engraved title page, and initial imprimatur leaf, dated Nov. 16. 166.
"The second part of the queen-like closet" has separate dated title page; register and pagination are separate.
"A supplement to the queen-like closet, or A little of everything" (also sometimes published separately as Wing W3288) has separate dated title page, pagination, and contents; register begins with A1 (i.e. 2A1).
With ten final contents leaves before the Supplement.
Copy tightly bound with slight loss of print; 2G12 is torn at upper corner, affecting pagination.
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 ; 2163:13) s1999 miun s