The English house-wife : containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate 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, distilations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, and dying: the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent uses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke 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 Kingdome. By G.M.
1637
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The English house-wife : containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate 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, distilations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, and dying: the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent uses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke 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 Kingdome. By G.M.
Created/published
London : Printed by Anne Griffin for Iohn Harrison, at the Golden Vnicorne in Pater-noster-row, 1637.
Description
[10], 252 p. : ill. ; (4to)
Associated name
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637, author.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Note
Dedication signed: Gervase Markham.
Signatures: A⁶(-A1) B-Q⁸ R⁶.
Also issued as pt. 3 of 17397 -- STC.
Signatures: A⁶(-A1) B-Q⁸ R⁶.
Also issued as pt. 3 of 17397 -- STC.
ESTC staff note
Rpm 12/02/96
Signatures from DFo.
Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2011. Beyond Home Remedy.
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), 17354
Poynter, Markham, no. 34.6
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S120592
Poynter, Markham, no. 34.6
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S120592
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
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STC 17354
Folger-specific note
Smedley. Manuscript markings in pencil. Burn hole on E8, and N7 torn, affecting text. Rebound at the Folger, previously disbound. Provenance: anonymous armorial bookplate (motto "virtus tutamen suum"); inscription on front paste-down: "A[S?]. Inner Temple 1870."; bookplate of W. T. Smedley (motto "forward")