The English house-vvife : 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, 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 worke 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. By G.M.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.

Series:

Early English books online

Standardized Title:

Country contentments, or the English huswife

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Home economics.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (10 unnumbered pages, 252 pages) : illustrations (woodcuts)

Other Title:

Country contentments, or the English huswife.

English house-wife.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Nicholas Okes for Iohn Harison, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the golden Vnicorne in Pater-noster-row, 1631.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Dedication signed: Geruase Markham.

Originally published in 1623 as "Country contentments, or the English huswife", which was an enlargement of book 2 of "Countrey contentments, in two bookes".

Reproduction of the original in the University of Glasgow. Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1577:6) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

STC (2nd edition) 17353.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.