A hermeticall banquet, drest by a spagyricall cook: for the better preservation of the microcosme / [Anon].
- Date:
- 1652
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Publication/Creation
London : Andrew Crooke, 1652.
Physical description
18 pages, 19 unnumbered leaves, 161 pages ; (8vo)
Notes
Imperfect: sig. A1 (blank?) wanting
Attributed sometimes to Thomas Vaughan or to James Howell. Cf. S. Halkett and J. Laing. Dictionary of anonymous ... English literature. Vol. 9, (1962) p. 131
Copy 1 Note: First leaf and p. 103-4 wanting. The attribution of this work to Thomas Vaughan or James Howell is not in accordance with the author's dedicatory epistle which is addressed to Sir Isaac Wake 'embassadour ... select for France' (and thus dated 1631 or earlier) by his physicians, probably a former medical student of Padua (see p. 67 of text). This person has not been Sir Thomas Cademan, M.D. Padua, 1620 and later physician to Henrietta Maria and the Earl of Bedford. His death on 2 May 1651 could explain the publication of this ork after so long and interval (see entry in Stationers' Register for 25 June 1651). The author describes himself as 'natent ... renated, and of a vegetable, made vitall'. This could refer to the caddis or caddy, suggesting a private joke about the name Cademann or Cadyman.
References note
Wing V149
Duveen 291
ESTC R6717
Thomason, E.1306[1]
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), V149
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