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 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 i the English and French mode, with all sauces and sallers; and the making pyes, pasties, tarts, and custards, with the forms and shapes of many of them

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  • 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 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 i the English and French mode, with all sauces and sallers; and the making pyes, pasties, tarts, and custards, with the forms and shapes of many of them
  • Accomplished lady's delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery; Preserving, conserving, and candying; Beautifying waters, oyls, and powders; New and excellent experiments and secrets in the art of angling; Secrets and experiments; Compleat cook's guide; Compleat cooks guide
People / Organizations
Imprint
London: printed for Benjamin Harris, at the Stationers Arms and Anchor, in the Piazza at the Royal Exchange, in Cornhil, 1683. The third edition enlarged; ..
Added name
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.
Publication year
1683
ESTC No.
R186798
Grub Street ID
75326
Description
[4], 208, [4], 208 [i.e.209]-289, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. 12°.
Note
"An unauthorized work based on [Hannah Wooley's] books and adorned by a spurious portrait and unreliable biographical information was published in 1673 as The Gentlewomans Companion, and similar works followed in 1675 (The Accomplished Ladies Delight) and 1685 [sic] (The Compleat Servant-Maid). Like her authentic works, these were reprinted frequently." -- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

The epistle dedicatory is signed "T.P." = Hannah Woolley

Frontis. = plate = port

With an engraved titlepage: The accomplisht ladys delight. In preserving, physick, beautifying and cookery

Signatures: A-M]1]2] N]6

Register and text continuous despite pagination

"New and excellent experiments and secrets in the art of angling: being directions for the whole art. London, printed in the year 1683." has a separate dated titlepage on G2r; register and pagination continuous

"The compleat cook's guide. Or directions for the dressing of all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish, both in the English and French mode; ... London, printed in the year 1683." has a separate dated titlepage on H4r; register and pagination continuous.