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. / by Hannah Wolley.
1681
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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. / by Hannah Wolley.
Edition
The 4th ed.
Created/published
London : Printed for R. Chiswel at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard, and T. Sawbridge at the Three Flowers-de-luce in Little Britain, 1681.
Description
[12], 337, 336-343 [i.e. 342, 28]; [16], 200 pages ; 12mo.
Associated name
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670, author.
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Cited/described in
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R38729
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 271791 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "From the Library of the Earls of Haddington WOLLEY, 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. R. Chiswel and T. Sawbridge, 1681 8vo, fourth edition, preliminary licence to print, additional engraved title-page, second part and supplement with separate title-pages, supplement with separate pagination, contemporary calf, spine gilt with Baillie's golden fleece motif, browning, restoration and reinforcement internally, worming throughout, rebacked retaining original spine (although split), rubbed The author, described by historian Wendy Wall as "a domestic female celebrity as the Martha Stewart of the seventeenth century", was perhaps the first person to make a living writing about household management, publishing four works on the subject. The current work was published at least twice in German and contains the first known recipe for Sussex pond pudding. LITERATURE: ESTC R38729 PROVENANCE: George Baillie (1644-1738), engraved armorial bookplate; thence by descent to the Earls of Haddington Ordered from: Christopher Edwards, D9275, 2019-12-13 at Sotheby's Auction "English Literature, History, Children's Books and Illustrations", 10 Dec 2019, Lot 80