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Extended title: The lady’s polite secretary, or New female letter writer : Containing an elegant variety of interesting and instructive letters, intended as models to form the style on every point essential to the happiness or entertainment of the…

2 volumes

Vol. 2, No. 1153 (November 9, 1728)
Single issue only. -- Running title: Gross-grove’s news.
Includes domestic & foreign news, adverts. (some with cuts); takes a Tory & Jacobite view. -- Headpiece includes panoramic view of Norwich; halfpenny tax…

Full title: The nevv vvorld of vvords. Or a general English dictionary. Containing the proper significations, and etymologies of all words derived from other languages, viz. Hebrew, Arabick, Syriack, Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, Brittish,…

England, circa 1668. Contains approximately 300 culinary recipes and 425 household remedies for disease, wounds, etc.

"The fourth edition, adorn’d with sculptures."

Extended title: The Workes of Our Antient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed. In this impression you shall find these additions: 1 His portraiture and progenie shewed. 2 His life collected. 3 Arguments to euery booke gathered. 4…

England, 1400s.
Directions for distilling a mixture of spices, herbs, and wine to make a water good for a variety of diseases and for wounds.
Top 3 lines partly torn away.
Phillipps 40717