01992nam 2200361 n 450 99639054320331620200824121046.0(CKB)4940000000103147(EEBO)2240897746(UnM)99845461e(UnM)99845461(EXLCZ)99494000000010314719910927d1631 uy |engurbn||||a|bb|The English house-vvife[electronic resource] Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, 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, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent vses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke generally approued, and now the fourth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome. By G.MLondon Printed by Nicholas Okes for Iohn Harison, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the golden Vnicorne in Pater-noster-row1631[10], 252 p. ill. (woodcuts)Dedication signed: Geruase Markham.Originally published in 1623 as "Country contentments, or the English huswife", which was an enlargement of book 2 of "Countrey contentments, in two bookes".Reproduction of the original in the University of Glasgow. Library.eebo-0166Home economicsEnglandEarly works to 1800Home economicsMarkham Gervase1568?-1637.877321Cu-RivESCu-RivESCStRLINWaOLNBOOK996390543203316The English house-vvife2304135UNISA