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 oyls, banquetting stuff, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wool, hemp, flax: making cloth and dying; the knowldege of dayries: office of malting; of oats, their excellent uses in a family: of brewing, baking and all other things belonging to an houshold. A work generally approved, and now the eighth time much augmented purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this nation. By G.M.

People / Organizations

• Gervase Markham (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by W. Wilson, George Sawbridge, at the bible on Ludgate-hill near Fleet-Bridge, 1664.

Publication year

1664-1664

ESTC No.

R221468

Grub Street ID

95614

Description

[8], 80, 73-188 p. : ill., 4⁰

Note

G.M. = Gervase Markham.

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