The accomplish'd lady's delight, in preserving, physick, beautyfying [sic], cookery, and gardening. Containing, I. The art of preserving, and candying, fruits and flowers, and making all sorts of conserves, syrups, jellies, and pickles. II. The physical cabinet: or, excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery. Also some new receipts relating to the fair sex, whereby they may be richly furnish'd with all manner of beautifying waters, to add loveliness to the face and body. III. The compleat cook's guide: or directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish, after the newest fashion, now in use at the British court; with the making of sauces, pyes pasties, tarts, custards, &c. VI. [sic] The female angler, instructing ladies and others, in the various methods of taking all manner of fish, in the fish-pond or river. V. The lady's diversion in her garden: or, the compleat flowerist, with the nature and use of all sorts of plants and flowers

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  • The accomplish'd lady's delight, in preserving, physick, beautyfying [sic], cookery, and gardening. Containing, I. The art of preserving, and candying, fruits and flowers, and making all sorts of conserves, syrups, jellies, and pickles. II. The physical cabinet: or, excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery. Also some new receipts relating to the fair sex, whereby they may be richly furnish'd with all manner of beautifying waters, to add loveliness to the face and body. III. The compleat cook's guide: or directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish, after the newest fashion, now in use at the British court; with the making of sauces, pyes pasties, tarts, custards, &c. VI. [sic] The female angler, instructing ladies and others, in the various methods of taking all manner of fish, in the fish-pond or river. V. The lady's diversion in her garden: or, the compleat flowerist, with the nature and use of all sorts of plants and flowers
  • Accomplished lady's delight
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Imprint
London : Printed for John Willis and Joseph Boddington, at the Angel and Bible in Great-Tower-Street, [1732?] The eleventh edition inlarged.; ..
Added name
Harris, Thomas. Lady's diversion in her garden.; Woolley, Hannah, active 1670, attributed name.
Publication year
1732
ESTC No.
N15858
Grub Street ID
5560
Description
[6], 162 [i.e.163], [9] p. ; 12°.
Note
"An unauthorized work based on [Hannah Wooley's] books and adorned by a spurious portrait and unreliable biographical information was published in 1673 as The Gentlewomans Companion, and similar works followed in 1675 (The Accomplished Ladies Delight) and 1685 [sic] (The Compleat Servant-Maid). Like her authentic works, these were reprinted frequently." -- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

"The lady's diversion in her garden" is by Thomas Harris

Preface signed: T.P

Page 163 is misnumbered 162

Willis and Boddington are found together in imprints only at this address, and the only dated imprints for their partnership are in 1732. Willis was alone at this address in 1730; neither man appears at this address after 1732.
Uncontrolled note
[8] at end = tables and contents.set fun cat mai/upd