E[velyn] (J[ohn]) Acetaria. A Discourse of Sallets, first edition, ruled in red throughout, folding table of blanched and unblanched salad greens, errata leaf at end, some browning, some spotting, small paper flaw hole to A1 just touching one letter, contemporary panelled calf, gilt, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label, a little rubbed, spine ends slightly worn, splits to joints at head and foot, [Bitting p.149; Cagle 669; Hunt 401; Henrey 117; Keynes 105; Oxford p.46; Wing E3480], for B.Tooke, 1699; and an eighth edition of Kalendarium Hortense of 1691 lacking the final two leaves, 8vo (2) ⁂ Important work on the growing, preparation and medicinal properties of salads, and one of only a few rubricated copies, believed to have been for presentation to distinguished figures. "Keynes speaks of the copies printed on better paper (most of which are bound quite uniformly) as having been prepared specially under Evelyn's own direction...It is a cookery-garden book with excellent recipes for unusual dishes of all sorts flavored with the ever useful pot herbs grown so universally in the 17th century." Hunt
E[velyn] (J[ohn]) Acetaria. A Discourse of Sallets, first edition, ruled in red throughout, folding table of blanched and unblanched salad greens, errata leaf at end, some browning, some spotting, small paper flaw hole to A1 just touching one letter, contemporary panelled calf, gilt, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label, a little rubbed, spine ends slightly worn, splits to joints at head and foot, [Bitting p.149; Cagle 669; Hunt 401; Henrey 117; Keynes 105; Oxford p.46; Wing E3480], for B.Tooke, 1699; and an eighth edition of Kalendarium Hortense of 1691 lacking the final two leaves, 8vo (2) ⁂ Important work on the growing, preparation and medicinal properties of salads, and one of only a few rubricated copies, believed to have been for presentation to distinguished figures. "Keynes speaks of the copies printed on better paper (most of which are bound quite uniformly) as having been prepared specially under Evelyn's own direction...It is a cookery-garden book with excellent recipes for unusual dishes of all sorts flavored with the ever useful pot herbs grown so universally in the 17th century." Hunt
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