The English Housewife

The English Housewife

Gervase Markham (1568? - 1637)

The English hous-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman. As her skill in physick, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banquetting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hemp, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellecnt uses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A work generally approved, and now the fifth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this nation.

London : Printed by W. Wilson, for E. Brewster, and George Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill, neere Fleet-bridge., 1653.

Originally published in 1623 as "Country contentments, or the English huswife", which was an enlargement of book 2 of "Countrey contentments, in two bookes".
Preface signed: Gervase Markham.
Errata on prelim. p. [10]
Available electronically as part of Early English books online.
10 unnumbered pages, 68 pages, 61-188 pages : illustrations ;

1653

5th Edition

Text,

19 cm