Salt and fishery, a discourse thereof insisting on the following heads. 1. The several ways of making salt in England, and foreign parts. 2. The character and qualities good and bad, of these several sorts of salt, English refin'd asserted to be much better than any foreign. 3. The catching and curing, or salting of the most eminent or staple sorts of fish, for long or short keeping. 4. The salting of flesh. 5. The cookery of fish and flesh. 6. Extraordinary experiments in preserving butter, flesh, fish, fowl, fruit, and roots, fresh and sweet for long keeping. 7. The case and sufferings of the saltworkers. 8. Proposals for their relief, and for the advancement of the fishery, the woollen, tin, and divers other manufactures. By John Collins, accomptant to the Royal Fishery. [sic] Company. E Reg. Soc. Philomath

People / Organizations

• John Collins (Author)

Imprint

London : printed by A. Godbid, and J. Playford, and are to be sold by Mr. Robert Horne at the Royal Exchange, Mr. John Kersey, and Mr. Henry Faithorn, at the Rose in St. Pauls Church-yard, Mr. William Bury, Glob[e-]maker, at the Globe near Charing-Cross, 1682.

Added name

Godbid, Anne, printer.; Playford, John, approximately 1655-1685 or 1686, printer.; Horne, Robert, active 1660-1686, bookseller.; Kersey, John, active 1681-1686, bookseller.; Faithorne, Henry, active 1681-1688, bookseller.

Publication year

1682

ESTC No.

R223938

Grub Street ID

97687

Description

[8], 32, 49-164, [4] p. ; 4°.

Note

This edition has a full stop after "Royal Fishery" in the second to the last line of title. Another edition (ESTC R43111) has no punctuation after "Royal Fishery". Wing does not differentiate between the two editions.