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The English house-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman. As her skill in physick, chiurgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banqueting stuff, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfums, ordering of wool, hemp, flax: making cloath and dying; the knowledge of dayries: office of malting; of oats, their excellent uses in families: of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an hosehold.

Title
The English house-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman. As her skill in physick, chiurgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banqueting stuff, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfums, ordering of wool, hemp, flax: making cloath and dying; the knowledge of dayries: office of malting; of oats, their excellent uses in families: of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an hosehold. A work generally approved, and now the ninth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this nation. By G. Markham.
Author
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
Publication
London, Printed for H. Sawbridge, 1683.

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Description
4 p. l., 188 [i.e. 196] p.; 19.5 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • Numbers 73-80, 97-104 repeated, 89-96 omitted, in paging.
  • In running title: Book 2.
Call Number
*KC 1683 (Markham, G. English house-wife)
OCLC
15094518
Author
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
Title
The English house-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman. As her skill in physick, chiurgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banqueting stuff, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfums, ordering of wool, hemp, flax: making cloath and dying; the knowledge of dayries: office of malting; of oats, their excellent uses in families: of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an hosehold. A work generally approved, and now the ninth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this nation. By G. Markham.
Imprint
London, Printed for H. Sawbridge, 1683.
Edition
[9th ed.]
Local Note
Imperfect: p. 2, 37-38 mutilated.
Helen Hay Whitney Collection.
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*KC 1683 (Markham, G. English house-wife)
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