The English hovse-wife. Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of ... wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth ... the knowledge of dayries, office of malting ... baking, and all other things belonging to an household / A worke generally approved, and now the fifthe time much augmented. Purged and made most profitable ... By G. [ervase] M.[arkham].

  • Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
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The English hovse-wife. Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of ... wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth ... the knowledge of dayries, office of malting ... baking, and all other things belonging to an household / A worke generally approved, and now the fifthe time much augmented. Purged and made most profitable ... By G. [ervase] M.[arkham]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed by Anne Griffin for I. Harrison, 1637.

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6 unnumbered leaves (first blank), 252 pages ; (4to)

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Caption title: The approoved booke, called the English housewife ... Booke II
First published as the second book in the 1615 edition of his Country contentments or The husbandmans recreation. cf. Hazlitt's Handbook, p. 371

References note

STC 17354
ESTC S120592
Poynter, Markham, no. 34.6
STC (2nd ed.), 17354

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