Dominic Winter Auctions
Lot 365
[M. W.].The Queens Closet Opened: Incomparable Secrets in Physick, Chyrurgery, Preserving, Candying, and Cookery; as they were presented unto the Queen by the most Experienced Persons of our times, many whereof were honoured with her own Practise, when she pleased to descend to these more private Recreations, 4th edition, corrected, with many additions, London: Nathaniel Brooks, 1658, engraved portrait frontispiece of Henrietta Maria by W. Faithorne, second and third parts with separate title-pages ('A Queens Delight: or, the Art of Preserving, Conserving, and Candying' and 'The Compleat Cook', third part with separate pagination, 14pp. publisher's advertisements at end, upper half of leaf E4 in first part excised, lacks leaves O4 & O9 in second part, sewing partly broken and few leaves loose, margins frayed particularly at front and rear, light dust-soiling and toning, contemporary sheep, leather lifting on boards, spine cracked and torn at head, rubbed and worn, 12moQty: (1)NOTESCagle 838 (The Queens Closet Opened, & A Queens Delight') and Cagle 835 (The Compleat Cook); Wing M98 & M90. The book has been attributed to Walter Montague, the personal secretary of Henrietta Maria wife of Charles I. The Queens Closet Opened offered readers a rare glimpse into the domestic secrets of royalty, specifically the unpopular French widow of the executed King. The title would have resonated with contemporary readers as a reference to the scandalous publication of the King and Queen's private letters in 1645 titled The King's Cabinet Opened.
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