The English hous-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman. : As her skill in physick, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banquetting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hemp, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent uses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A work generally approved, and now the fifth time much augmented ... / By G. M.

  • Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
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1653
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The English hous-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman. : As her skill in physick, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banquetting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hemp, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent uses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A work generally approved, and now the fifth time much augmented ... / By G. M. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed by W. Wilson, for E. Brewster, and George Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill, neere Fleet-bridge, 1653.

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10 unnumbered pages, 188 (i.e. 192) pages ; 4to (19 cm)

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ESTC R32514

Notes

In his A vvay to get vvealth, 1653 [1654]
Numerous errors in paging, including repetition of 61-68 & 92-99 and omission of 79-82 & 89-96 in the numbering.
Errata: verso of 5th prelim. leaf.
Dedication signed: Gervase Markham.
Copy 1 Note: Imperfect: Lacks all after p. 184.

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