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The secretes of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont : Containing excellent remedies against divers diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dyinges, colours, fusions, and meltinges. A worke well approued, verye profitable and necessarie for everye man. Newely corrected and amended, and also somewhat enlarged in certaine places, whiche wanted the fyrst edition

Archive Print Item: Early Science 2 1562/ALE

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Title: The secretes of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont : Containing excellent remedies against divers diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dyinges, colours, fusions, and meltinges. A worke well approued, verye profitable and necessarie for everye man. Newely corrected and amended, and also somewhat enlarged in certaine places, whiche wanted the fyrst edition

Other titles: Secreti

Level: Item

Classmark: Early Science 2 1562/ALE

Creator(s): Alessio Piemontese

Additional creator(s): Ruscelli, Girolamo (1565) (Other); Ward, William (1534-1609) (Other)

Related people: Ruscelli, Girolamo; Ward, William

Publisher: by Rouland Hall, for Nycolas England, dwellynge in Pater noster roew

Publication city: Prynted at London

Date(s): 1562

Language: English

Size and medium: 3 v in 1 ([6], 122 [10] leaves, [4], 161, [15] p., [2], 79, [9] leaves)

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/239862

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991013364059705181

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Printer's device on each title-page.


Colophon of pt. 1: Printed at London by Roulande Hall, for Nycolas Enlande, 1562. Pt. 3: Here endeth this present worke of Secretes and soueraigne Receiptes, gathered out of diuers good and approued Autheurs, and set forth in the French tongue, and novve latelye translated into Englythe (to the profite of this our country) by W. Warde. Prynted at London by Rouland Hall dwellyng in Sutter lane, at the signe of the half Egle and the Keye.


Entrellic and bold intials.


Each part has separate title page; imprint of part 2 reads: Imprinted at London, by Jhon [sic] Kyngston: for Nicholas Englande, 1560.


Alessio Piemontese is a pseudonym, possibly of Girolamo Ruscelli.


STC 296, 301, 305.

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Wanting: vol.1, leaves 73-82 vol.2, p.13-14 vol.3, all after sig. Yiii. Title page inscribed E libris Ric. Nash Arm. Bathoniae 1761

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