A Compleat body of distilling : explaining the mysteries of that science, in a most easy and familiar Manner ; containing an exact and accurate method of making all the compound cordial-waters now in use with a particular account of their several virtues ... : in two parts
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A Compleat body of distilling : explaining the mysteries of that science, in a most easy and familiar Manner ; containing an exact and accurate method of making all the compound cordial-waters now in use with a particular account of their several virtues ... : in two parts
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[2] leaves, [4], 152 pages : [1] illustration ; 20 cm (8vo)
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A Compleat body of distilling : explaining the mysteries of that science, in a most easy and familiar Manner ; containing an exact and accurate method of making all the compound cordial-waters now in use with a particular account of their several virtues ... by G. Smith, of Kendall in Westmoreland. The second edition. London : Printed for Henry Lintot at the Cross Keys between the Temple-Gates in Fleetstreet, MDCCXXXI [1731].
Includes index.
Engraved frontispiece by Paul Fourdrinier.
Signatures: A-K8
"Books printed for Henry Lintot at the Cross Keys between the Temple Gates in Fleet-street"-- two pages inserted before the frontispiece.
Rockefeller Library copy bound in full sprinkled calf with blind tooling.
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Maclean, V. Short-title catalogue of household and cookery books published in the English tongue, 1701-1800, page 136
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Smith, George, distiller, “A Compleat body of distilling : explaining the mysteries of that science, in a most easy and familiar Manner ; containing an exact and accurate method of making all the compound cordial-waters now in use with a particular account of their several virtues ... : in two parts,” Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, accessed December 14, 2025, https://cwfjdrlsc.omeka.net/items/show/4130.