The English house-vvife. : 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.M.
1631
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The English house-vvife. : 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.M.
Uniform title
Country contentments, or the English huswife
Created/published
London : 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-row, 1631.
Description
[10], 252 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; (4to)
Note
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".
Signatures: A⁶(-A1) B-Q⁸ R⁶.
Also issued as pt. 3 of 17396 sq. -- STC.
Originally published in 1623 as "Country contentments, or the English huswife", which was an enlargement of book 2 of "Countrey contentments, in two bookes".
Signatures: A⁶(-A1) B-Q⁸ R⁶.
Also issued as pt. 3 of 17396 sq. -- STC.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1999. Fooles and Fricassees (catalog p. 47)
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 17353
Poynter, Markham, no. 34.5(b)
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S109817
Poynter, Markham, no. 34.5(b)
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S109817
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
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STC 17353
Folger-specific note
ac6881. Imperfect: lacking A3-6. Manuscript markings on t.p.; manuscript notes on O3v - O5r. Some leaves poorly inked, affecting text. Burn holes on N8 and P6. Trimmed, affecting side-notes. Rebound at the Folger, previously disbound. Provenance: stamp of the Sion College Library [London]; Hodgson sale, May 26, 1938 (for Sion College)