Everard Digby's copy.- [Ruscelli (Girolamo)] The Secretes of the Reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont. Containing excellent remedies against divers diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, consitures, dyinges, colours, fussions, and meltinges, translated by William Warde, 3 parts in 1, black letter, titles with woodcut printer's device, woodcut decorative initials, occasional early ink marginalia, part 1 lacking I2-7 (loosely supplied in photocopy), part 2 lacking F7, part 3 lacking I2&3, L1&4 and N2&3, first title tear to upper corner with loss of part of 2 letters, some worming to lower inner gutters at end of part 1 and start of part 2 (ends around sig. G), some spotting or staining, lightly browned, 19th century blind-stamped calf, sympathetically rebacked, spine in compartments and preserving original 19th century orange leather label, corners worn, covers rubbed and little scuffed, [Bitting p.6 (note); Cagle 978 (note); STC 296, 301 & 305; cf. Oxford pp.3-4 (first edition); Simon BB 30 & BG 84 & Vicaire 12-13], small 4to, Rowland Hall for Nicholas England, 1562-1563-1562. *** An extensive compendium of medicinal and culinary recipes. Includes distillation, perfumery, and dyeing. The work is rarely found complete. A fourth part was published in 1569. Our copy with an interesting provenance. Provenance: Provenance: Everard Digby; Martha Flower (early ink inscriptions to title); Henry Holland (early ink inscription to margin of part 1 F4); John T. Beer (engraved bookplate).Possibly Everard Digby (c.1578-1606), member of the group of Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot, who was found guilty of high treason, hanged, drawn and quartered; or Everard Digby (1551-1605) scholar and author of the first book on swimming to be published in England, De arte natandi, 1587; or Everard Digby, father of the first mentioned above, who died in 1592.