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 oyles, banquetting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hemp, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent uses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A work generally approved, and now the fifth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this nation. By G.M.

People / Organizations

• Gervase Markham (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by W[illiam]. Wilson, for E[dward]. Brewster, and George Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill, neere Fleet-bridge, 1653.

Publication year

1653-1653

ESTC No.

R32514

Grub Street ID

115220

Description

[10], 68, 61-78, 83-188 p. : ill. ; 4⁰

Note

Preface signed: Gervase Markham.

Errata on prelim. p. [10].

With a table of contents.

Text is continuous despite pagination.