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

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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 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
  • Accomplisht ladys delight. In preserving, physick, beautifying and cookery; Art of preserving, and candying fruits and flowers, as also of making all sorts of conserves, syrups and jellies; Excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery; Beautifying waters, oyls, oyntments, and powders, to adorn and add loveliness to the face and body; Supplement of some rare beautifying waters, oyls, ointments, and powders; New and excellent experiments and secrets in the art of angling. Being directions for the whole art; 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; Accomplished ladies delight in preserving, physic, beautifying, and cookery
People / Organizations
Imprint
London: printed for Benjamin Harris, at the Stationers Arms and Anchor, in the Piazza, at the Royal-Exchange in Cornhil, 1685. The fifth edition enlarged.; ..
Added name
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.
Publication year
1685
ESTC No.
R222040
Grub Street ID
96098
Description
[4], 154, [5], 156-208, [12] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (woodcuts) ; 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

Frontis. = plate

With six final index leaves

Text and register are continuous despite pagination.
Uncontrolled note
Verify if p. 155 is paginated copy catalogued/filmed isn't, but other copies may be?