Countrey contentments, or The English husvvife : Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgerie, extraction of oyles, banqueting-stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, oats, their excellent vses in a family, brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke generally approued, and now much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessarie for all men, and dedicated to the honour of the noble house of Exceter, and the generall good of this kingdome. By G.M.

Instructions on household management.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Women Advising Women: Part 5: Women's Writing and Advice, c. 1450-1720, from the Bodleian Library, Oxford ; reel 6:3.
Main Author: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Corporate Author: Adam Matthew Publications
Language:English
Published: Printed at London : By I[ohn]. B[eale]., for R. Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet-streete Conduit, 1623.
Series:Women Advising Women: Part 5: Women's Writing and Advice, c. 1450-1720, from the Bodleian Library, Oxford ; reel 6:3.
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Physical Description:8 unnumbered pages, 80, 79-174, 173-133, that is, 233 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 4to.
Variant Title:
Country contentments, or The English huswife.
Countrey contentments, or The English huswife.
English huswife.
Format: Book

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