The English house-wife : containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman, as her skill in physick, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent vses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A work generally approued, and now the fourth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome
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Type of record: Book
Title: The English house-wife : containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman, as her skill in physick, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent vses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A work generally approued, and now the fourth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome
Classmark: Cookery A/MAR
Creator(s): Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637)
Publisher: Printed by Nicholas Okes for Iohn Harison
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1631
Language: English
Size and medium: [10], 252 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/253656
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016119599705181
Collection group(s): Cookery Collection
Description
Dedication signed: Gervase Markham.
"The English huswife" originally appeared as book 2 of Country contentments, 1615, and was later reprinted with other treatises by Markham in A way to get wealth.
Additional description
Wrongly lettered on spine: 1683. The dedication and part of the table [sigs.A3-4] are bound in after sig.A6 in error. Title-page mutilated
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