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THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 63

[PLAT (HUGH)]
A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen; Delights for Ladies, to Adorn their Persons, 2 works in 1 vol., 1654

19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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[PLAT (HUGH)]

A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen, or, the Art of Preserving, Conserving, and Candying.. and all Kinde of Banqueting-stuff: also Divers Soveraign-Medicines and Salves. Corrected, Amended, and much Enlarged; Delights for Ladies, to Adorn their Persons, Tables, Closet's and Distillatories: with Beauties, Banquets, Perfumes and Waters. Read, Practise, and Censure, 2 works in 1 vol., woodcut ornaments and initials, occasional minor spotting and soiling, first work with lower margin of title restored, without blank A1, small dampstain in upper margins at beginning, modern calf, gilt lettered spine [ESTC R214916 & R214917; Bitting p.373; Oxford p.13-14, second work only], 12mo, Printed by R.W., 1654

Footnotes

Hugh Plat's Delightes for Ladies, a book of receipts for cookery, cosmetics, distillation, housewifery and preservation, was first published in 1600. It was immensely popular, editions continuing to appear for decades after the author's death. The equally successful A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen first appeared in 1602, and added the then fashionable sugar cookery, thus focussing on the three areas popular with aristocratic women in their country estates, confectionary, distillation and medicine. Although Quayle describes it as an anonymous imitation of Delightes for Ladies, and ESTC concurs, it is sometimes attributed to Plat, and from around 1611 the works were often issued together.

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