Publisher's Synopsis
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The accomplisht ladys delight in preserving, physick and cookery
Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1611?,
Harris, Thomas.
Erroneously attributed to Sir Hugh Plat.
Imprint from Wing.
With engraved title page, and engraved frontispiece bound before title page.
Pages 57-61 misnumbered 59, 56, 57, 68 and 16.
Includes: "The lady's diversion in her garden. Containing a handfull of choice and novel curiosities and observations, relating to plants and flowers. together, with brief directions for the nice adorning balconies, turrets, and windows, with flowers, or greens, every month in the year. By Thomas Harris, gard'ner, at Stockwel, in Surrey.," with caption title; pagination and signatures continuous.
Not an STC book.
Copy filmed lacks final page of table.
Some print faded and show-through; some pages cropped, stained and tightly bound, with some loss of print.
[4], 176, [8] p.:
[London?: For B. Harris, 1675]
Wing (2nd ed.) / W3268
STC (2nd ed.) / 19976
English
Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library
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