The English Housewife
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.....