| British Library: | 7943.s.23 |
| Curwen Press: | F25 |
| British Library: | 7943.s.23 |
| Curwen Press: | F25 |
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[within a border of 3 rows of printer's flowers, the middle row printed in red] A LITTLE BOOK OF CHEESE BY OSBERT BURDETT Was not that a great Cheese, think you, wherewith Zoroaster lived in the Wilderness twenty years together without any other Meat? Health's Improvement... By the ever Famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick. London, 1655 LONDON GERALD HOWE LTD 23 Soho Square
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Epistolae E Roma Missae Auctori Collaboranti Et Amico Sacrum
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Crown 8o: 7⅜" × 4¾", trimmed, white wove, no mark; 12(+1)pt. Bembo; line block illustrations; casing black cloth, spine gold-blocked: ‘A Little Book of Cheese Osbert Burdett [and at foot] Howe’
B.L. accession stamp illegible, so date of accession is not known.
Dr Thomas Muffett lived in North Mymms, Hertfordshire; his step-daughter Patience may be the hero of the 'Little Miss Muffett' nursery rhyme. Muffett, a court physician, studied silkworms and spiders; the half-title is from Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum which he enlarged and edited, written by Edward Wotton, Conrad Gesner and Thomas Penny, and ready for printing 1589. It was translated into English and published at last in 1634 after his death. The half-title may be translated 'Letters sent from Rome, dedicated to my friend and co-author'.
See foot of Contents page for credit to Pauline Baumann.
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Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 31/Jul/2017