The secrets of Alexis : containing many excellent remedies against diuers diseases, wounds, and other accidents. With the maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dyings, colours, fusions, and meltings.
- Alessio, Piemontese, approximately 1471-
- Date:
- 1615
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About this work
Also known as
Secreti. Part 1. English
Publication/Creation
London : Printed by William Stansby for Richard Meighen and Thomas Iones, and are to be sold at their shop without Temple-barre vnder S. Clements Church, 1615.
Physical description
6 unnumbered pages, 348 pages, 14 unnumbered leaves
Edition
Newly corrected and amended, and also somewhat more enlarged in certaine places, which wanted in the former editions.
Notes
A translation by William Ward (parts 1-3) and Richard Androse (part 4) of a French version of: Ruscelli, Girolamo. De' secreti del R.D. Alessio Piemontese.
In five parts.
With an index.
Parts 2-4 have separate dated title pages; the fifth part has a caption title; foliation and register are continuous.
The title page to the second part bears the imprint "Printed at London by W. Stansby, anno Dom. 1614." The title pages to the third and fourth parts bear the imprint "London printed by William Stansby. 1614.".
Huntington copy identified as STC 299, Folger copy as 304, and British Library copy as 311 on UMI microfilms.
Reproductions of the originals in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (part 1) (reel 1470), the Folger Shakespeare Library (part 2) (reel 561), the British Library (parts 4-5) (reel 1298), and the Bodleian Library (whole item) (reel 1845).
References note
STC (2nd ed.) 312.5.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English Books, 1475-1640 ; 1470:01, 561:8, 1298:3, 1845:4) s1999 miun s