Countrey contentments, or The English husvvife : Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgerie, 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, dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, oats, their excellent vses in a family, brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke generally approued, and now much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessarie for all men, and dedicated to the honour of the noble house of Exceter, and the generall good of this kingdome. By G.M.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 813:9.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home economics--England--Early works to 1800.

Home economics.

England.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 80, 79-174, 173-133, that is, 233 pages, 3 unnumbered pages

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Country contentments, or The English huswife

Countrey contentments, or The English huswife.

English huswife.

Place of Publication:

Printed at London : By I[ohn] B[eale], for R. Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet-streete Conduit, 1623.

Notes:

Dedication signed: Geruase Markham.

An enlarged version of part 2 of his: Countrey contentments, in two bookes.

Printer's name from STC.

The last leaf is blank.

P. 233 misnumbered 133.

Also issued as part 3 of his: A way to get wealth, 1623.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1959. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 813:9). s1959 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 17343.

OCLC:

55185608