The English House-Wife : containg [i.e. containing] the inward and outward Vertues which ought to be in a Compleat Woman. As her skill in physick, Chirurgery, Cookery, Extraction of Oyls, Banqueting stuff, Ordering of great Feasts, Preserving of all sort of Wides, conceited Secrets, Distillatians, [sic] Perfumes, Ordering of Wool, Hemp, Flax : Making Cloth 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 Houshold ... / by G. Markham.

  • Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
Date:
1675
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About this work

Publication/Creation

London : printed for George Sawbridge, at the Sign of the Bible on Ludgate-Hill, 1675.

Physical description

8 unnumbered pages, 80, 73-88, 97-104, 97-188 pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 4to (20 cm)

Edition

A work generally approved and now the eighth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general goood of this nation.

References note

Wing (2nd ed.) M681 (part 3)
Wing (1st ed.) M635
ESTC R216245 (part 3)
Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib, 309

Notes

Considered not to be a separate publication but the third part of: A way to get wealth. London, 1676.

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