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[PLAT (H), SIR].: Delights for Ladies, to adorne their Persons, Tables, Closets, and Distillatories; with Beauties, Banquets, Perfumes and Waters. [Facsimile Re-issue]. 200 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Liz Seeber, Brighton, 2002 12mo., text within woodcut border; violet cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 200 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 145). Sir Hugh Plat [or Platt], son of a brewer and a wealthy landowner, is one of the earliest and most remarkable English writers on food and drink of the Tudor period. 'Delights for Ladies' was first published in 1600 and several times reissued; all editions are now rare. The present high-quality facsimile, issued at the original size, is taken from the edition of 1628. Bitting, p.373; Cagle 930 (recording the tenth edition of 1624); Oxford, 13; STC 19983.5.
Offered for GBP 78.00 = appr. US$ 127.61 by: Island Books - Book number: 14421