The secrets of the reuerend Maister Alexis of Piemont
Subtitle: containing excellent remedies against diuerse diseases, wounds, and other accidents, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dyings, colours, fusions, and meltings. A worke well approued, verie necessarie for euerie man. ... Translated out of French into English by William Ward.
Contributors: Ward, William, 1534-1609.; Androse, Richard, 16th cent.
Edition: Newly corrected and amended, and also somewhat inlarged in certaine places, which wanted in the first edition.
Series: Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 635:8.
Publisher: By Peter Short, for Thomas Wight
Published: 1595
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.; Recipes -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Secreti.; Secrets of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont.
Work titles: Secreti.
First sentence: (After the address to the reader) 'The manner and secret to conserve a man's youth, and to holde back old age, and to maintaine a man alwaies in health and strength, as in the fairest flower of his age.'
Description: Many receips for cure of ailments, against pestilence & plague, to make soap, oils, cosmetics, colours, rare metals, to alleviate women's complaints.  A very diverse collection of quite reasonable
 remedies.
Notes: A translation by William Ward (parts 1-3) and Richard Androse (part 4) of a French version of: Ruscelli, Girolamo. De' secreti del R.D. Alessio Piemontese.

In four parts.

Includes index.

Parts 2-4 have separate dated title pages.

Edition statement precedes translator statement on title page.

Foxed; some print show-through.

Reproduction of the original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.

STC (2nd ed.) 312.

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1955. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 635:08).