Healths improvement: or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation. Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London.
1655
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Healths improvement: or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation. Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London.
Created/published
London : Printed by Tho: Newcomb for Samuel Thomson, at the sign of the white Horse in Pauls Churchyard, 1655.
Description
[8], 296 p. ; (4to)
Note
With a preliminary imprimatur leaf.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "May. 8.".
Annotation on Thomason copy: "May. 8.".
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1999 Fooles and Fricassees (catalog p. 28)
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), M2382
British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661, E.835[16]
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R202888
British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661, E.835[16]
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R202888
Genre/form
Imprimaturs.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
M2382
Folger-specific note
141767. Sprinkled calf binding with blind two-line double fillet border; (re-backed); lacking paste-downs. Printer's waste spine-lining and back fly-leaf, all from same book with running title: "M. T. C. Epist. ad Attic. Liber VII." (i.e. "Epistolarum ad Atticum..."; format is 8⁰, text is in Italics, and leaves represented are in sig.m). Manuscript marks. On t.p. at foot of page around imprint, bookseller's code (?). Lacking imprimatur leaf. Provenance: inscription on back fly-leaf: "George Tindall his Writing 1656 (?)"; inscription on front inside cover: "William Staite His Book."