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