Angling.- Accomplish'd ladies delight (The) in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery, 3 parts in 1, third edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut plate of fishes and 2 of pies and tarts, lacking additional engraved title, plate of carving, A6&7, E12, F1 and G1&12, portrait torn and laid down, with some loss at foot and to margins (not affecting main portrait), E10 lacking section of text and repaired, some professional repairs (including to a short worm trace to title and A2), early ink pen trials to final blank verso, some staining, occasional spotting, lightly browned, new endpapers, contemporary sheep, sympathetically rebacked, spine with red morocco label, upper cover lower corner repaired, covers rubbed and marked, housed in a modern cloth drop-back box, [Bitting p.513 (note); Oxford pp.37-38 (note); Wing W3270], Printed for Benjamin Harris, at the Stationers Arms and Anchor, in the Piazza at the Royal Exchange, in Cornhil, 1683. sold not subject to return; and a defective copy of The Queens Closet Opened, 1658, 12mo (2)
⁂ The second part is 'New and excellent experiments and secrets in the art of angling: being directions for the whole art', and the third 'The compleat cook's guide. Or directions for the dressing of all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish, both in the English and French mode'.
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