The accomplish'd lady's 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 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 lady's 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 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
  • Phisical cabinet; Physical cabinet; New and excellent experiments and secrets in the art of angling; Complete cooks guide
People / Organizations
Imprint
London: printed for B. Harris, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Stationers Arms in Swithins Rents near the Royal Exhange, 1677. The second edition enlarged.; ..
Added name
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.
Publication year
1677
ESTC No.
R222319
Grub Street ID
96339
Description
[4], 379+ p., [4] 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

Frontis. = plate

On A1v: Licensed Rog. L'strange

With an index at end of text

"The phisical cabinet" (p. 117); "New and excellent experiments and secrets in the art of angling"( p. 191); and "The complete cooks guide" (p. 223) each have separate dated title pages; pagination and register is continuous.
Uncontrolled note
Verify pagination; copy catalogued lacks all after p. 379 which has catchword: Stew'd