Plat (Sir Hugh) The Jewel House of Art and Nature, second edition, title within woodcut typographic border and with woodcut of an ear of summer barley to verso, woodcut illustrations, head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking B4 (ie pp.7/8), some light water-staining, later tree calf, gilt, joints and corners a little rubbed,[Bitting p.373; Cagle 935; Simon BG 1186; Kress 889; Goldsmiths' 1294; Wing P2390], small 4to, Printed by Bernard Alsop, 1653.
⁂ Second edition of this compendium of useful household information including instructions on storing fruit and flowers, brewing, 'how to speak by signs onely', stealing bees, preventing drunkeness, 'keeping oysters good ten or twelve days', distilling, and much more.
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