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The accomplish'd lady's delight, in preserving, physick, beautifying, cookery, and gardening. Containing, I. The art of preserving, and candying, fruits and flowers, and making all sorts of conserves, syrups, jellies, and pickles. II. The physical cabinet: or, excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery. Also some new receipts relating to the fair sex, whereby they may be richly furnish'd with all manner of beautifying waters, to add loveliness to the face and body. III. The compleat cook's guide: or directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish, after the newest fashion, now in use at the British court; with the making of sauces, pyes pasties, tarts, custards, &c. VI. [sic] The female angler, instructing ladies and others, in the various methods of taking all manner of fish, in the fish-pond or river. V. The lady's diversion in her garden or, the compleat flowerist, with the nature and use of all sorts of plants and flowers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- T. P.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cookery--Early works to 1800.
- Cookery.
- Beauty, Personal--Early works to 1800.
- Beauty, Personal.
- Medicine, Popular--Early works to 1800.
- Medicine, Popular.
- Gardening--England--Early works to 1800.
- Gardening.
- Canning and preserving--Early works to 1800.
- Canning and preserving.
- Genre:
- Cookbooks -- England -- 18th century.
- Manuals (Handbooks) -- England -- 18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([6], 162 [i.e.163], [9] p. )
- Edition:
- The eleventh edition inlarged.
- Other Title:
- Accomplish'd lady's delight,
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for John Willis and Joseph Boddington, at the Angel and Bible in Great-Tower-Street, [1720?]
- Notes:
- Sometimes attributed to Hannah Woolley.
- "The lady's diversion in her garden" is by Thomas Harris.
- Preface signed: T. P.
- P.163 is misnumbered 162.
- Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, N15858.
- OCLC:
- 642145900
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