Research Catalog

Title

The lady's delight, [electronic resource] : Or Accomplish'd Female Instructor: being a very useful companion for ladies, gentlewomen, and others. In two parts. Part I. Treating of generous breeding and behaviour; Choice of Company, Friendship; the Art of Speaking well, Directions in Love, Carriage in Company, Conversation, Affability, Courtesy and Humility; the Mystery of Eloquence. Of suitable Recreations, Modesty, Chastity, Religion, Charity, Compassion, Contentment of Mind, Devotion and Prayer. Part II. Treating of making curious confectionaries, or Sweet-Meats, Jellies, Syrups, Cordial waters, Brandies, Wines of English Fruit, and other useful Liquors; to imitate Foreign Wines; to make Junkets. Spoon-Meats, and curious Pastery; to know good Provisions, Dye curious Colours, Whiten Ivory, Cement Glass, China or Metal; make Artificial Pearls or Precious Stones; to take our Spots or Stains, &c. to Paint, Japan, make Wax works, Rock-Work, or Works in Gold, Silk, Silver, &c. the Art of Perfuming and Preserving Cloaths from Vermin or Insects; Physical and Chyrurgical Receipts: with Directions for the Preservation of Health; to make curious Sawces, keep Flowers all the Year, Pickle all kind of useful Thing; cleanse Gold or Silver Lace; rare Experiments for Diversion, and a great Number of other useful and profitable Things.

Publication

London : printed for James Hodges at the Loaking glass on London Bridge, [1740?]

Details

Description

[8],184p.; 12⁰.

Subject

• Conduct of life > Early works to 1800
• Cooking > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

Guidebooks.

Note

• Below imprint: Price Bound One Shilling.
• Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Indexed In (note)

• English Short Title Catalog

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic reproduction.

OCLC

• 642494156
• ECCO1-T175325

Title

The lady's delight, [electronic resource] : Or Accomplish'd Female Instructor: being a very useful companion for ladies, gentlewomen, and others. In two parts. Part I. Treating of generous breeding and behaviour; Choice of Company, Friendship; the Art of Speaking well, Directions in Love, Carriage in Company, Conversation, Affability, Courtesy and Humility; the Mystery of Eloquence. Of suitable Recreations, Modesty, Chastity, Religion, Charity, Compassion, Contentment of Mind, Devotion and Prayer. Part II. Treating of making curious confectionaries, or Sweet-Meats, Jellies, Syrups, Cordial waters, Brandies, Wines of English Fruit, and other useful Liquors; to imitate Foreign Wines; to make Junkets. Spoon-Meats, and curious Pastery; to know good Provisions, Dye curious Colours, Whiten Ivory, Cement Glass, China or Metal; make Artificial Pearls or Precious Stones; to take our Spots or Stains, &c. to Paint, Japan, make Wax works, Rock-Work, or Works in Gold, Silk, Silver, &c. the Art of Perfuming and Preserving Cloaths from Vermin or Insects; Physical and Chyrurgical Receipts: with Directions for the Preservation of Health; to make curious Sawces, keep Flowers all the Year, Pickle all kind of useful Thing; cleanse Gold or Silver Lace; rare Experiments for Diversion, and a great Number of other useful and profitable Things.

Imprint

London : printed for James Hodges at the Loaking glass on London Bridge, [1740?]

Reproduction

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Indexed In:

English Short Title Catalog, T175325.

Connect to:

Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Place of Publication

Great Britain England London.