COUNTREY CONTENTMENTS OR THE ENGLISH HOUSEWIFE (huswife). CONTAINING the inward and outward Vertues which ought to be in a compleate Woman.

Printed at London, by I[ohn]. B[eale]., for R. Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet-streete Conduit, 1623.. Title continued: As her skill in Physicke, Surgerie, Extraction of Oyles, Banqueting-stuffe, Ordering of great Feasts, Preserving 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 Exeter, and the generall good of this Kingdome. By G.M. SECOND EDITION 1623. Dedication signed: Geruase Markham, also issued as Part 3 of his: A Way to get Wealth,1623. Small 4to, approximately 195 x 140 mm, 7½ x 5 ½ inches, woodcut marks for gageing on page 150, a few pictorial initials and headpieces, pages: [8], 1-80, 79-174, 173-133 (133 misnumbered should read 233), lacks front and rear blanks, some mispagination, this copy collates as ESTC S112049. Rebound in modern full speckled calf, gilt lettered label, gilt floral designs and date between raised band to spine, new cream endpapers. I lower corner neatly repaired no loss of text, 3 lower corners tips slightly frayed and 2 missing, none affecting text, occasional pale stains mostly to margins, otherwise a very good copy. See: Poynter, A Bibliography of Gervase Markham, pages 128-129 and 155; William Gagle, A Matter of Taste, A Bibliographical Catalogue of International Books on Food and Drink, page 608, No. 847; Katherine Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, page 309; Andre Simon Bibliotheca Gastronomica, page 98, No. 1004. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.