Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The queen-like closet, or, Rich cabinet : stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying & cookery : very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex / by Hannah Wolley.

Accession number
PML 199100
Creator
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.
Published
London : Printed for R. Lowndes at the White Lion in Duck Lane near West-Smithfield, 1670
Credit line
Jamie Kamph in honor of the Morgan's Centennial,
Description
[12], 383, [35] pages : frontispiece ; 14.3 cm
Notes
First edition.
Publisher's advertisements on page [30] at end.
Binder's statement in ML&M files: In 2018 I wandered through the NY Antiquarian Book Fair, looking for a book that would lend itself to an embroidered binding. The Queen-Like Closet is a
Binding
Bound by Jamie Kamph at the Stonehouse Bindery in airplane linen embroidered in cotton floss with kitchen scenes (front and back cover) and fruits (spine); green marbled endpapers; gilt fore-edges. Enclosed in sage green paisley canvas-covered clamshell b
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso of page 383: Thomasin Francklyn.
Variant title
Ladies new closet, or rather rich cabinet
Provenance
Jamie Kamph.
Classification
Department