The English house-vvife : containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman, as her skill in physick, surgery, cookery, 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, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent vses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold : a work generally approued, and now the fourth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome / by G.M.
In: Markham, Gervase. A way to get wealth. -- All the fift time corrected and augmented by the author. -- Printed at London : By Nicholas Oakes for John Harrison, 1631. IaU Dedication signed: Gervase Markham. Gift of Louis Szathmáry. IaU
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