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THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 80

WOOLLEY (HANNAH)
The Queen-like Closet, or Rich Cabinet, Richard Lowndes, 1675-1674

19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £6,062.50 inc. premium

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WOOLLEY (HANNAH)

The Queen-like Closet, or Rich Cabinet: Stored with all manner of Rare Receipts for Preserving, Candying and Cookery. Very Pleasant and Beneficial to all Ingenious Persons of the Female Sex. To which is added, A Supplement, Presented to all Ingenious Ladies, and Gentlewomen, 2 parts (and supplement) in 1 vol., third edition, engraved frontispiece incorporating 5 kitchen scenes, with initial licence leaf and advertisement leaf after Part 2, woodcut ornaments and head-pieces, occasional soiling, a few headlines just shaved, nineteenth century diced calf, double gilt filet border on sides, spine with gilt raised bands and red morocco label, slightly rubbed, some spots to upper cover [ESTC R221176; Bitting p.504; Oxford p.35; cf. Simon BG 1628], 12mo, Richard Lowndes, 1675-1674

Footnotes

"Hannah Woolley or Woley... was a letter-writer and an industrious woman whose book of recipes, menus and directions to servants is well put together" (Simon). She was possibly the first person to earn a living from books on household management, and sought to address servants for the first time. Woolley introduced unfashionable ingredients such as anchovies, capers and wine into her simplified dishes, and helped bring in pumpkins and molasses from the New World. Included here are recipes for a trifle with cream but no custard, a gooseberry fool, hot chocolate, and mince pies containing meat as well as dried fruits. The book also contains the first known recipe for Sussex pond pudding. The first edition appeared in 1670, and this third edition, with separate title pages to Part 2 and the Supplement both dated 1674, was the first to contain the Supplement.

Provenance: Last leaf with old ink inscription "No. 1060"; Edward Winstanley, bookplate.

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