The English house-wife
Subtitle: 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
By: by G.M.
Edition: 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
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Printed by Anne Griffin for Iohn Harrison, at the Golden Vnicorne in Pater-noster-row
Published: 1637
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Home economics; Early works to 1800; Cooking; Medicine
Notes: Dedication signed: Gervase Markham.

Oxford, A.W. Engl. cookery books, 17

STC (2nd ed.) 17354.

Gift; American Institute of Wine & Food.

From the American Institute of Wine & Food Collection.

Imperfect: p. 123-128 torn at upper corner, some text wanting.

Rebacked with vellum, with gilt spine label of authors last name from older binding pasted on.