The closet of the eminently learned Sir Kenelme Digby Kt. opened : whereby is discovered several ways for making of metheglin, syder, cherry-wine, &c., together with excellent directions for cookery, as also for preserving, conserving, candying, &c.
A 1677 London cookery and drinks manual by the courtier and natural philosopher Sir Kenelm Digby, published by Henry Brome for a general readership of household cooks and gentry. The first picture is a bookplate of a punch bowl heaped with birds, fish and fruit, and the second is a stiff engraved portrait of Digby in a lace collar beside a shelf of books, which suggests period frontispiece conventions for a designer's reference.
