Salt and fishery, a discourse thereof insisting on the following heads. 1. The several ways of making salt in England, and foreign parts. 2. The character and qualities good and bad, of these several sorts of salt, English refin'd asserted to be much better than any foreign. 3. The catching and curing, or salting of the most eminent or staple sorts of fish, for long or short keeping. 4. The salting of flesh. 5. The cookery of fish and flesh. 6. Extraordinary experiments in preserving butter, flesh, fish, fowl, fruit, and roots, fresh and sweet for long keeping. 7. The case and sufferings of the saltworkers. 8. Proposals for their relief, and for the advancement of the fishery, the woollen, tin, and divers other manufactures. By John Collins, accomptant to the Royal Fishery Company. E Reg. Soc. Philomath.

People / Organizations

• John Collins (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by A. Godbid, and J. Playford, and are to be sold by Mr. Robert Horne at the Royal Exchange, Mr. John Kersey, and Mr. Henry Faithorn, at the Rose in St. Pauls Church-yard, Mr. William Bury, Globemaker, at the Globe near Charing-Cross, 1682.

Publication year

1682-1682

ESTC No.

R43111

Grub Street ID

124187

Description

[8], 32, 49-164, [4] p. ; 4⁰

Note

Text and register continuous despite pagination.

This edition has no punctuation after "Royal Fishery" in the second to the last line of title. Another edition has a full stop after "Royal Fishery".Citation/references Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), C5380B

Goldsmiths' 2464

Sabin, 14440