The English Housewife

by Gervase Markham, Michael R. Best

$50 · Offered by B Street Books

McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986. Hardcover. 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 Fine / Fine. Item #2022-M374

• Binding: Hardcover

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