Dec 04, 2006 - Sale 2096

Sale 2096 - Lot 65

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(COOKERY.) [Markham, Gervase.] The English House-Wife. Containing the Inward and Outward Vertues which ought to be in a compleate Woman. [6] (of [12]), 252 pages; lacks 3 preliminaries and C4.5 (pages 23-26). 4to, modern blind-ruled leather with leather lettering piece; contents browned with occasional light dampstaining, title soiled, chipped along fore edge, with bottom line of imprint cropped, next leaf torn along bottom edge London: Nicholas Okes for John Harison, 1637

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Fifth edition of Markham's guide to home remedies, cookery, and miscellaneous household skills, forming the third part of the 1637 edition of his A Way to Get Wealth, and also issued separately. It first appeared as the second part of his 1615 Countrey Contentments. Cagle, A Matter of Taste 848; Oxford, page 16; STC 17354.