Sir Kenelm Digby; Anne MacDonell [editor]
The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby
London, Philip Lee Warner, 1910. Cloth. A smart new edition of this English cookery book, originally published in 1669, edited by British writer Anne MacDonell. New edition. With a portrait frontispiece and the title page of the first edition. An English cookery book first printed in 1669, based upon the writings of Sir Kenelm Digby and "published by his son's consent". The book gives recipes for traditional English dishes such as meat pies, pasties and syllabub, but also reflects on Digby's travels around Europe. With some hundred recipes for brewing mead and metheglin. Sir Kenelm Digby was an English courtier and diplomat, a highly reputed natural philosopher, astrologer and a leading Roman Catholic intellectual and Blackloist. Edited by Anne Macdonell, a British author. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light spotting to the first and last few pages with age toning to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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