A thousand notable things. Containing modern curiosities. viz. Divers rare and experienced physical receipts. Monthly observations in gardening, planting, and grafting. To catch birds, fish, &c. To kill bugs, rats, mice, and all sorts of vermin. To make white-wine, claret, mead, cyder, punch, &c. The virtues and use of Dulwich waters. To take spots out of linen, wollen, paper, or parchment. Rules for the preservation of health. To make all sorts of ink, wax, and wasers. To educate children to learn languages speedily. Riddles, jests and stories. To dye bone. To order, encrease, and preserve bees. To make corn produce a tripple crop. How to make Covent-Garden purl, and Dr Butler's ale. How to make old people look young. To make leather last long. To make fine pictures. How to order all manner of pickles. To make window-sashes. The art of dying, colouring, perfuming, and gilding. With above nine hundred other curiosities, on various subjects. Also a new help to discourse, and directions to

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  • A thousand notable things. Containing modern curiosities. viz. Divers rare and experienced physical receipts. Monthly observations in gardening, planting, and grafting. To catch birds, fish, &c. To kill bugs, rats, mice, and all sorts of vermin. To make white-wine, claret, mead, cyder, punch, &c. The virtues and use of Dulwich waters. To take spots out of linen, wollen, paper, or parchment. Rules for the preservation of health. To make all sorts of ink, wax, and wasers. To educate children to learn languages speedily. Riddles, jests and stories. To dye bone. To order, encrease, and preserve bees. To make corn produce a tripple crop. How to make Covent-Garden purl, and Dr Butler's ale. How to make old people look young. To make leather last long. To make fine pictures. How to order all manner of pickles. To make window-sashes. The art of dying, colouring, perfuming, and gilding. With above nine hundred other curiosities, on various subjects. Also a new help to discourse, and directions to
  • Thousand notable things, of sundry sortes
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Imprint
London : Printed for J. Ward, at the King's Arms in Little Britain, 1748.
Publication year
1748
ESTC No.
T221389
Grub Street ID
244696
Description
Pp.228,[12],1-46 : ill. ; 12°.
Note
Anonymous. By Thomas Lupton

First published in 1579 as 'A thousand notable things, of sundry sortes'

The final section is entitled 'The compleat vermin-killer' with separate pagination but continuous register

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Uncontrolled note
Verify pagination, final section of AWn copy incomplete