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.

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  • 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.
  • Country contentments, or The English huswife Countrey contentments, or The English huswife English huswife
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Imprint
Printed at London: by I[ohn]. B[eale]., for R. Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet-streete Conduit, 1623.
Publication year
1623-1623
ESTC No.
S112049
Grub Street ID
131814
Description
[8], 80, 79-174, 173-133 [i.e. 233], [3] p. : diagrams ; 4⁰
Note
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.
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Rpm 12/02/96