Beschreibung:

Plat (Sir Hugh). Delights for Ladies, to adorne their Persons, Tables, Closets, and Distillatories; with Beauties, Banquets, Perfumes, and Waters, London: by H. L. and R. Y. and are to bee sold by James Boler, 1628, text within ornamental border throughout, slightly browned, small stain to upper inner corners of leaves A1-3, damp-staining to quires B, E and F, retaining final leaf H12 (blank except for ornamental border), various early ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, contemporary limp vellum, 12mo (12 x 7 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: From the estate of John Lawson (1932-2019). ESTC S107188; STC 19983.7; cf. Bitting p. 373, Cagle 930 (other editions). A rare early edition of Plat's 'guide to the housewifely arts of preserving fruits, distilling, and the blending of perfumes, hair dyes, and other aids to beauty' (ODNB). ESTC traces five copies in libraries world-wide. The first dated edition appeared in 1602; an undated edition may have been printed earlier, with a conjectured dated of 1600.