The secretes of the Reverende Mayster Alexis of Piemount : conteinyng many excelle[n]t remedies agaynst dyuers diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the manner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dyinges colours, fusions, and peltynges : a worke wel approued verye profytable and necessary for euery man - Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565.; Sutton, Henry, -approximately 1581; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress) (Londini : [Henry Sutton], 1559)
Gothic type.
Colophon: Imprinted at London by Henry Sutton dvvellyng in Pater noster rovve at the signe of the blacke Moryan, anno a virgineo partu 1559.
The 2nd ed. of the first part of the English translation of the "Secreti." The 1st ed. appeared in 1558, printed at London by John Kingstone for Nicolas Inglande, who also printed the English translation of the 2nd part, a copy of which is bound with the present first part and has title: The seconde part of the Secretes of Master Alexis of Piemont, by hym collected out of diuers excellent aucthours, and newely tr. out of Frenche into Englishe, with a generall table, of all the matters conteined in the saied boke. By Willyam Ward. Imprinted at London, by Jhon Kyngston: for Nicholas Englande, 1560. Cf. J. Ferguson, Bibliog. notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets, pt. III in Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society, n.s., vol. I (1890), p. 220-223.
Signatures: a [pointing hand] A-Q R.
STC (2nd ed.)
With: Ruscelli, Girolamo. The seconde part of The secretes of Master Alexis of Piemont. Imprinted at London : By Jhon Kyng[st]on for Nicholas Englande, anno domini 1560. Bound together subsequent to publication.
Keywords: Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.; Pharmacy -- Early works to 1800.; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800.