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Book/Printed Material The English house-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman

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Title

  • The English house-wife, 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, 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 household. A work generally approved, and now the fifth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome

Names

  • Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
  • Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • London : Printed by B. Alsop, 1649.

Headings

  • -  Home economics--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  LC copy imperfect: p. 39-41 wanting.
  • -  Dedication signed: Gervace Marchan.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
  • -  Gift: A. W. Bitting, Oct. 6, 1939; Rec. R.B. 7-10-44.
  • -  LAC ecr 2019-02-11 update (2 cards)

Medium

  • 5 p. l., 252 p. : illus. ; 19 x 15 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • TX144 .M3 1649

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 44028418

Online Format

  • pdf
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Chicago citation style:

Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637, and Katherine Golden Bitting Collection On Gastronomy. The English house-wife, 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, 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 household. A work generally approved, and now the fifth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome. London: Printed by B. Alsop, 1649. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/44028418/.

APA citation style:

Markham, G. & Katherine Golden Bitting Collection On Gastronomy. (1649) The English house-wife, 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, 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 household. A work generally approved, and now the fifth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome. London: Printed by B. Alsop. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/44028418/.

MLA citation style:

Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637, and Katherine Golden Bitting Collection On Gastronomy. The English house-wife, 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, 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 household. A work generally approved, and now the fifth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome. London: Printed by B. Alsop, 1649. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/44028418/>.