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    • Title:A closet for ladies and gentlewomen, or, The art of preserving, conserving, and candying : with the manner how to make divers kindes of syrups, and all kind of banqueting-stufs : also divers soveraigne-medicines and salves : corrected, amended, and much enlarged by adding a very usefull-table thereunto.
    • Published/Created:London : Printed by R.H. [i.e. Richard Hodgkinson], 1651.
    • Physical Description:[12], 84 leaves ; 12 cm (12mo)
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    • Local Notes:BEIN 2018 189: Imperfect: Leaves A1, H12 wanting; H1 mutilated at lower outer corner. Bookseller description of book tipped in. No. 1 of 2 titles bound together with binder's title: Closet for ladies.
    • Notes:Signatures: A-H¹² (A1 blank).
    • Variant and related titles:Closet for ladies and gentlewomen
      Art of preserving, conserving, and candying
    • Format:Book
    • References:Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994), C4729
      English short title catalogue, R024765
    • Subjects:Canning and preserving--Early works to 1800.
      Confectionery--Early works to 1800.
      Medicine, Popular--Early works to 1800.
      Canning and preserving.
      Medicine, Popular.
    • Genre/Form:Early works.
      Cookbooks.
    • Also listed under:Hodgkinson, Richard, active 1624-1668, printer.
      England--London.