Lot 193
Plat, Sir Hugh
Delightes for Ladies
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
to adorne their Persons, Tables, Closets, and Distillatories: with Beauties, Banquets, Perfumes and Waters. London: printed by H. L., 1605. 12mo (12 x 6.8cm), contemporary limp vellum, unpaginated, signatures presumably A-H12 (H1-4 and H9-11 in sympathetic facsimile, also lacking H12, probably blank or cancelled, the text ending 'Finis' on H11r.), ornamental woodcut borders throughout, binding soiling, probably resewn with endpapers renewed, a large fragment from a contemporary edition of A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen bound in at rear, occasional damp-staining and other marks to text, worming to lower margins from quire C, E7 repaired [ESTC S94740; STC 19979.5]
Footnote
Note: ESTC traces one other copy, at the University of Leeds, from which the facsimile leaves in this copy are believed to have been made (information provided by the vendor), though in that copy having H1 is described as cancelled and H4 as a blank. Sir Hugh Plat's Delightes for Ladies was first published in 1602.