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.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2163:11.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beauty, Personal--Early works to 1800.

Beauty, Personal.

Cosmetics--Early works to 1800.

Cosmetics.

Formulas, recipes, etc--Early works to 1800.

Formulas, recipes, etc.

Home economics--Early works to 1800.

Home economics.

Cooking--Early works to 1800.

Cooking.

Canning and preserving.

Physical Description:

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

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Edition:

The fifth edition enlarged.

Other Title:

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

Place of Publication:

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

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.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1992. 1 microfilm reel 35mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 2163:11)). s1992 miun a

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) W3272

OCLC:

160253414