WOLLEY | The Queen-like Closet, 1681

From the Library of the Earls of Haddington

WOLLEY, HANNAH

The Queen-like Closet, or Rich Cabinet: stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying, and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex. To which is added, A supplement, presented to all ingenious ladies, and gentlewomen. R. Chiswel and T. Sawbridge, 1681

8vo, fourth edition, preliminary licence to print, additional engraved title-page, second part and supplement with separate title-pages, supplement with separate pagination, contemporary calf, spine gilt with Baillie’s golden fleece motif, browning, restoration and reinforcement internally, worming throughout, rebacked retaining original spine (although split), rubbed

The author, described by historian Wendy Wall as "a domestic female celebrity as the Martha Stewart of the seventeenth century", was perhaps the first person to make a living writing about household management, publishing four works on the subject. The current work was published at least twice in German and contains the first known recipe for Sussex pond pudding.

LITERATURE:

ESTC R38729

PROVENANCE:

George Baillie (1644-1738), engraved armorial bookplate; thence by descent to the Earls of Haddington

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