The English housewife
By: Gervase Markham ; edited by Michael R. Best.
Contributors: Best, Michael R.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Kingston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Home economics -- England -- Early works to 1800; Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800; Cookery, English -- Early works to 1800
Notes: Bibliography: p. [291]-296.
Subtitle: Containing the inward and outward virtues which ought to be in a complete woman, as her skill in physic, cookery, banqueting-stuff, distillation, perfumes, wool, hemp, flax, dairies, brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to a household.
Includes index.