Beschreibung:

Gastronomy. A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen, or The Art of Preserving, Conserving, and Candying. With the manner how to make divers kindes of Syrups, and all kinds of Banqueting-stufs: also divers Soveraigne-Medicines and Salves. Corrected, Amended, and much Enlarged, by adding a very usefull Table thereunto, printed by R. H., 1651, lacking preliminary blank (as often), title-page somewhat soiled, generally toned and dusty throughout, some edge-fraying and short tears, C6 with some contemporary ink trials to lower margin, H6 with lower blank margin torn away, bound with: [Plat, Sir Hugh], Delights for Ladies To adorn their Persons, Tables, Closets and Distillatories: with Beauties, Banquets, Perfumes and Water. Read, Practice, and Censure, printed by William Dugard, 1651, final blank present, toned throughout, a few text leaves slightly water-stained, G2-G7 a little adhered at extreme fore-edge, without front pastedown and rear endpapers, later bookplates of Claudia Q. Murphy and C-E Berndt (see note), contemporary sheep, worn, with joints cracked and some surface loss to spine and corners, 12mo (Qty: 1) Provenance: Claudia Quigley Murphy (1863-1941) was an American journalist and supporter of the women's suffrage movement, who wrote a number of books relating to gastronomy, including Bread - The Vital Food, A Collation of Cakes Yesterday and Today, and The History of the Art of Tablesetting, all published in the 1920s. ESTC R24765 & R220448; Wing C4729 & P2381; Oxford, p. 14 refers. A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen was first published in 1608, and is commonly found bound with Sir Hugh Plat's Delights for Ladies.