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Record Nr.

UNISA996391508503316

Autore

Markham Gervase <1568?-1637.>

Titolo

Countrey contentments, or The English husvvife [[electronic resource] ] : 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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Printed at London, : By I[ohn] B[eale], for R. Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet-streete Conduit, 1623

Descrizione fisica

[8], 80, 79-174, 173-133 [i.e. 233], [3] p

Soggetti

Home economics - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

P. 233 misnumbered 133.

Also issued as part 3 of his: A way to get wealth, 1623.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018