A Choice Manual, or Rare Secrets in Physick and Chirurgery... Whereto are added several experiments of the vertue of Gascons Powder, and Lapis contra Yarvam... The Nineteenth Edition; A True Gentlewomans Delight. Wherein is contain'd all Manner of Cookery: Together with Preserving, Conserving, Drying, and Candying. Very necessary for all Ladies and Gentlewomen, 2 parts in 1 vol., engraved portrait (laid down, fore-margin trimmed), A9 with piece torn from margin (just shaving some letters), dampstain in lower outer corners of volume with some resulting fraying (not affecting text), nineteenth century red morocco, covers with gilt tooled border of acorns and oak leaves, gilt panelled spine with raised bands and floral decoration, g.e. [ESTC R218777; Bitting p.201; cf. Oxford p.22-23], 12mo (108 x 156mm.), H[enry] Mortlock at the Phoenix in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1687

Footnotes

A very popular collection of medical and culinary recipes, first published in 1653 and which ran to numerous revised editions. Although the work is usually listed under the Countess of Kent, the dedication is signed 'W.J.', and it was probably compiled by William Jar, a member of the Countess's household. The dedication of A Choice Manual is to "the virtuous and most noble Lady, Latitia Popham", the wife of a supporter of Oliver Cromwell, and A True Gentlewomans Delight is dedicated to Mistress Anne Pile, a baronet's daughter. "The first book is purely medical, and recommends the usual filthy remedies, e.g. the dung of a peacock for convulsions and powdered earthworms for jaundice... The second book is the cookery part, and tells how to make a slipcoat Cheese, Angellets, fine Diet-bread, Essings, Ponado, Bonny Clutter, Lady of Arundels Manchet, &c." (Oxford).

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