A book of fruits & flovvers : shewing the nature and use of them, either for meat or medicine : as also, to preserve, conserve, candy, and in wedges, or dry them : to make powders, civet bagges, all sorts of sugar-works, turn'd works in sugar, hollow or frutages, and to pickell them : and for meat, to make pyes, biscat, maid dishes, marchpanes, leeches, and snow, craknels, caudels, cakes, broths, fritterstuffe, puddings, tarts, syrupes, and sallets : for medicines : to make all sorts of poultisses, and serecloaths for any member swell'd or inflamed, ointments, waters for all wounds, and cancers, salves for aches, to take the ague out of any place burning or scalding : for the stopping of suddain bleeding, curing the piles, ulcers, ruptures, coughs, consumptions, and killing of warts, to dissolve the stone, killing the ring-worme, emroids, and dropsie, paine in the ears and teeth, deafnesse.
Title
A book of fruits & flovvers : shewing the nature and use of them, either for meat or medicine : as also, to preserve, conserve, candy, and in wedges, or dry them : to make powders, civet bagges, all sorts of sugar-works, turn'd works in sugar, hollow or frutages, and to pickell them : and for meat, to make pyes, biscat, maid dishes, marchpanes, leeches, and snow, craknels, caudels, cakes, broths, fritterstuffe, puddings, tarts, syrupes, and sallets : for medicines : to make all sorts of poultisses, and serecloaths for any member swell'd or inflamed, ointments, waters for all wounds, and cancers, salves for aches, to take the ague out of any place burning or scalding : for the stopping of suddain bleeding, curing the piles, ulcers, ruptures, coughs, consumptions, and killing of warts, to dissolve the stone, killing the ring-worme, emroids, and dropsie, paine in the ears and teeth, deafnesse.
Date
1656
Place
London
Publisher
Printed by M.S. for Tho. Jenner at the South entrance of the Royall Exchange
Language
English
Edition
2nd ed.
Contributor
BOOKSELLER:
Thomas Jenner
Thomas Jenner
Note
CONTENT:
Originally published in 1653 (cf. Hunt cat.).
Woodcut head-piece, initial.
Last page blank.
SIGNATURES:
A-E⁴ G²
ILLUSTRATIONS:
9 woodcuts of fruits and plants (2 missing, from pages 41 and 45).
FORMAT:
[2], 41, [1] pages : illustrations (engravings) ; 19 cm (4to)
CONDITION:
Missing pages 39-46.
Pages 48 and 49 appear to be missing, but this seems to be a printer's error. The pages numbered 50 and 51 in this edition are numbered 48 and 49 in the first edition (1653).
BINDING:
CRRS copy bound in 19th century leather (severely rubbed) with blind tooled border on both boards and blind tooled edges. Endpapers in minute green marble. Printed waste as spine lining.
Gold tooled lettering on spine.
CRRS copy is a gift. Larry Pfaff. 2024.
Originally published in 1653 (cf. Hunt cat.).
Woodcut head-piece, initial.
Last page blank.
SIGNATURES:
A-E⁴ G²
ILLUSTRATIONS:
9 woodcuts of fruits and plants (2 missing, from pages 41 and 45).
FORMAT:
[2], 41, [1] pages : illustrations (engravings) ; 19 cm (4to)
CONDITION:
Missing pages 39-46.
Pages 48 and 49 appear to be missing, but this seems to be a printer's error. The pages numbered 50 and 51 in this edition are numbered 48 and 49 in the first edition (1653).
BINDING:
CRRS copy bound in 19th century leather (severely rubbed) with blind tooled border on both boards and blind tooled edges. Endpapers in minute green marble. Printed waste as spine lining.
Gold tooled lettering on spine.
CRRS copy is a gift. Larry Pfaff. 2024.
Archive Location
Library Catalog
Num Pages
43
Call Number
TX705 .B72 1656
Rare Book
Files
Collection
Citation
“A book of fruits & flovvers : shewing the nature and use of them, either for meat or medicine : as also, to preserve, conserve, candy, and in wedges, or dry them : to make powders, civet bagges, all sorts of sugar-works, turn'd works in sugar, hollow or frutages, and to pickell them : and for meat, to make pyes, biscat, maid dishes, marchpanes, leeches, and snow, craknels, caudels, cakes, broths, fritterstuffe, puddings, tarts, syrupes, and sallets : for medicines : to make all sorts of poultisses, and serecloaths for any member swell'd or inflamed, ointments, waters for all wounds, and cancers, salves for aches, to take the ague out of any place burning or scalding : for the stopping of suddain bleeding, curing the piles, ulcers, ruptures, coughs, consumptions, and killing of warts, to dissolve the stone, killing the ring-worme, emroids, and dropsie, paine in the ears and teeth, deafnesse.,” Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies (CRRS) Rare Book Collection, accessed December 25, 2025, https://crrs.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/10396.