Countrey contentments, in two bookes : the first, containing the whole art of riding great horses in very short time, with the breeding, breaking, dyeting and ordring of them, and of running, hunting and ambling horses, with the manner how to vse them in their trauell. Likewise in two newe treatises the arts of hunting, hawking, coursing of grey-hounds with the lawes of the leash, shooting, bowling, tennis, baloone &c. By G.M. The second intituled, The English husvvife: containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman: as her phisicke, cookery, banqueting-stuffe, distillation, perfumes, wooll, hemp, flaxe, dairies, brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke very profitable and necessary for the generall good of this kingdome.
| Author/creator | Markham, Gervase |
| Other author | Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Printed at London : By I[ohn] B[eale] for R. Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet-street Conduit, 1615. |
| Description | [8], 109, [11], 128 p. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2240953821 |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | English hus-wife. |
| Variant title | English hus-vvife. |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | Dedication signed: Geruase Markeham. |
| General note | Book 1 contains an abridged version of his "How to chuse, ride, trayne, and dyet, both hunting horses and running horses", 1606, which was in turn an enlarged edition of his: A discource of horsmanshippe. |
| General note | "The English hus-vvife" has separate pagination and dated title page with "Printed at London by Iohn Beale .." in imprint; register is continuous. |
| General note | Reproduction of the original in the British Library. |
| References | STC (2nd ed.) 17342. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 852:1) |
| Other title | Discource of horsmanshippe. |
| Stock number | CL0036000023 ProQuest. 789 E. Eisenhower Parkway, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-3218 |