Lot 225
Cookery--M, W.
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2008 at 11:00 GMT
Description
The Queens closet opened: incomparable secrets in physick, chyrugery, preserving and candying &c. which were presented unto the Queen London: printed 1664, 12mo, 3 parts in one volume, period style blind-stamped calf, raised bands, lacking frontispiece and O6, E4 repaired with loss of a few letters
Footnote
Note: The work, first published in 1655, comprises three volumes usually bound together, with three separate title-pages: The Queens closet opened or The pearl of practise, the second titled A Queens Delight: or the art of preserving, conserving and candying, and the third The compleat cook, expertly prescribing the most ready wayes, whether Italian, Spanish or French, for dressing of flesh and fish. The first two volumes are continuously paginated, the third separately. Cf. Bitting p.595; Vicaire 184
Provenance: Elizabeth Comber, her book, 1666, inscription on endpaper.