Yet another Ferguson rarity: The Ladies Directory (1662)

John Ferguson’s collecting efforts have aided the preservation of a sizeable number of books surviving in only one or a handful of copies. One example I blogged about previously is the only extant copy of The true and perfect order to distill oyles (1575), an important early work of alchemical medicine in English. Now, attention turns to another rare survival, but from an author whose oeuvre is anything but obscure. The Ladies Directory, in Choice Experiments & Curiosities of Preserving in J...