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by Markham, Gervase, And Best, Michael R (Editor)


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Markham reveals the pretty and curious secrets of preparing everything from simple foods to such elaborate meals as a humble feast - an undertaking which entails preparing no less than two and thirty dishes, which is as much as can stand on one table. He instructs the housewife on brewing beer and caring for wine, growing flax and hemp for thread, and spinning and dyeing. As a housewife was also responsible for the health and soundness of body of her family, he includes advice on the prevention of everything from the plague to baldness and bad breath. No other source from this period provides the same richness of information in such a readable style. Michael Best's introduction and his abundant notes make The English Housewife readily accessible to the contemporary reader.

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  • Title The English Housewife
  • Author Markham, Gervase, And Best, Michael R (Editor)
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  • Edition First Edition
  • Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal
  • Date 1986
  • ISBN 9780773505827
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McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine copy in a fine jacket (now in protective plastic) of Michael R. Best's edition Gervase Markham's 1615 'The English Housewife'. From the jacket: 'Written with careful particularity, Markham's work offers an illuminating and intriguing look at the substance of women's work in the early seventeenth century, and the nature of day-to-day English life.' 321 pages. 9.5 x 6.25
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by MARKHAM, Gervase 1568-1637; Best, Michael R.

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Montreal ; Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Large Octavo. FIRST EDITION THUS. MONTREAL : 1986. [ First published in 1625; with facsimile of original title-page. Hardback. Cream textured cloth; red lettered spine. In red pictorial dust-jacket. Light-grey end-papers. Bright, tight and clean. No owner name or markings. Jacket bright - no tears or fading. NEAR FINE in like jacket; now in a clear protective sleeve. (lviii, )321 pages. Index. FULL-TITLE: The English housewife : containing the inward and outward virtues which ought to be in a complete woman ; as her skill in physic, cookery, banqueting-stuff, distillation, perfumes, wool, hemp, flax, dairies, brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to a household / Gervase Markham ; edited by Michael R. Best. CONTENTS: Of the inward virtues which ought to be in every housewife. And first of her general knowledges both in physic and surgery, with plain approved medicines for health of the… Read More
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Monteal: McGill-Queen's University Press., 1983 First edition in hardcover with dust jacket. From the library of author Terrence Penelhum who has lovingly inscribed this copy to his wife. 321 pp. Appendix, collation, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. The spine of the dust jacket has light sunning, the rear flap has a crease. Fine/Very Good.
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