The English hous-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman
Subtitle: 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 excellent 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 ...
By: By G. M.
Publisher: Printed by W. Wilson, for E. Brewster, and George Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill, neere Fleet-bridge
Published: 1653
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Notes: In his A vvay to get vvealth, 1653 [1654]

Numerous errors in paging, including repetition of 61-68 & 92-99 and omission of 79-82 & 89-96 in the numbering.

Errata: verso of 5th prelim. leaf.

Dedication signed: Gervase Markham.

ESTC R32514.

Copy 1 Note: Imperfect: Lacks all after p. 184.