The English hovse-wife. 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, preserving of ... wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth ... the knowledge of dayries, office of malting ... baking, and all other things belonging to an household
By: A worke generally approved, and now the fifthe time much augmented. Purged and made most profitable ... By G. [ervase] M.[arkham]
Publisher: Printed by Anne Griffin for I. Harrison
Published: 1637
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Home economics; Housekeeping
Notes: Caption title: The approoved booke, called the English housewife ... Booke II.

First published as the second book in the 1615 edition of his Country contentments or The husbandmans recreation. cf. Hazlitt's Handbook, p. 371.

STC 17354.

ESTC S120592.

Poynter, Markham, no. 34.6.

STC (2nd ed.), 17354.