Transcribers note: Original spellings, including inconsistencies, left in this e-text.
THE CLOSET OF SIR KENELM DIGBY KNIGHT OPENED:
NEWLY EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND GLOSSARY, BY ANNE MACDONELL
LONDON: PHILIP LEE WARNER
38 ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1910
The design on the front binding of this volume reproduces a contemporaryBinding (possibly by le Gascon?) from the library of the Author, whose armsit embodies.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| INTRODUCTION | ix |
| THE CLOSET OF SIR KENELM DIGBY OPENED: | |
| TITLE PAGE OF THE FIRST EDITION | 1 |
| TO THE READER | 3 |
| RECEIPTS FOR MEAD, METHEGLIN, AND OTHER DRINKS | 5 |
| COOKERY RECEIPTS | 111 |
| THE TABLE | 263 |
| APPENDIX I. SOME ADDITIONAL RECEIPTS | 271 |
| II. THE POWDER OF SYMPATHY | 272 |
| III. LIST OF THE HERBS, FLOWERS, &C., REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT | 274 |
| NOTES | 277 |
| GLOSSARY | 283 |
| INDEX OF RECEIPTS | 287 |
The frontispiece is a reproduction in photogravure after the portrait ofSir Kenelm Digby by Sir Anthony Vandyke in His Majesty's Collection atWindsor Castle, by permission.
INTRODUCTION
With the waning of Sir Kenelm Digby's philosophic reputation his name hasnot become obscure. It stands, vaguely perhaps, but permanently, forsomething versatile and brilliant and romantic. He remains a perpetual typeof the hero of romance, the double hero, in the field of action and therealm of the spirit. Had he lived in an earlier age he would now be amythological personage; and even without the looming exaggeration andglamour of myth he st
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