Food and drink.- Woolley (Hannah) The Accomplish'd Lady's Delight in Preserving, Physick, Beautifying, and Cookery, 4 parts in 1, second edition, The Arnold W. Oxford-Mrs. Thomas M. Scruggs & Margaret Cook copy, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional pictorial title, plate of anglers, plate of fish and 2 plates of pie shapes, narrow repair to outer margin of title, no loss of text, E3 repair to lower corner, just touching page number and catch-word, with minimal loss, H3 very small section torn away from lower corner (still present and preserved in an envelope), loss of 3 letters, but with no loss of sense of text, L7 torn within text, but with no loss, outer margin closely trimmed in parts, occasionally just touching text, but with no (or very minimal) loss, 19th-century brown crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf, richly gilt, covers detached, corners bumped, g.e., [Cagle 1058; Oxford p.37; Wing 3268A; W&S p.128], 12mo, printed for B. Harris, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Stationers Arms in Swithins Rents near the Royal Exhange, 1677. ⁂ A rare work with a distinguished provenance. Only the British Library copy listed on ESTC. We can trace only two other copies at auction - this and another (that defective). With preserving and making of conserves, pefumery and medical recipes and cookery in all its branches, as well as a separate part devoted to the art of angling. Provenance: Arnold W. Oxford; Mrs Thomas M. Scruggs & Margaret Cook; Marian H Hatch (bookplates); The Cetus copy, sold Bloomsbury Auctions, 22nd September 2011, lot 407.
Food and drink.- Woolley (Hannah) The Accomplish'd Lady's Delight in Preserving, Physick, Beautifying, and Cookery, 4 parts in 1, second edition, The Arnold W. Oxford-Mrs. Thomas M. Scruggs & Margaret Cook copy, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional pictorial title, plate of anglers, plate of fish and 2 plates of pie shapes, narrow repair to outer margin of title, no loss of text, E3 repair to lower corner, just touching page number and catch-word, with minimal loss, H3 very small section torn away from lower corner (still present and preserved in an envelope), loss of 3 letters, but with no loss of sense of text, L7 torn within text, but with no loss, outer margin closely trimmed in parts, occasionally just touching text, but with no (or very minimal) loss, 19th-century brown crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf, richly gilt, covers detached, corners bumped, g.e., [Cagle 1058; Oxford p.37; Wing 3268A; W&S p.128], 12mo, printed for B. Harris, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Stationers Arms in Swithins Rents near the Royal Exhange, 1677. ⁂ A rare work with a distinguished provenance. Only the British Library copy listed on ESTC. We can trace only two other copies at auction - this and another (that defective). With preserving and making of conserves, pefumery and medical recipes and cookery in all its branches, as well as a separate part devoted to the art of angling. Provenance: Arnold W. Oxford; Mrs Thomas M. Scruggs & Margaret Cook; Marian H Hatch (bookplates); The Cetus copy, sold Bloomsbury Auctions, 22nd September 2011, lot 407.
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