Countrey contentments, in two bookes: the first, containing the whole art of riding great horses ... with the breeding, breaking, dyeting and ordring of them ... The second intituled The English housewife: containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate women: as her phisicke, cookery ... distillation, perfumes, ... brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold / [Gervase Markham].

  • Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
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Countrey contentments, in two bookes: the first, containing the whole art of riding great horses ... with the breeding, breaking, dyeting and ordring of them ... The second intituled The English housewife: containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate women: as her phisicke, cookery ... distillation, perfumes, ... brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold / [Gervase Markham]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : J. Beale for R. Jackson, 1615.

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2 parts ; (4to)

References note

STC 17342
ESTC S112047
Poynter, Markham, no. 23.1
STC (2nd ed.), 17342

Notes

'The English housewife' has separate t.p. and pagination
The second edition of this title, in 1623, contained only the second book. Thereafter the title 'Country Contentments' was kept for the first book only.

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