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Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637)4
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Account book of domestic expenditure, mainly on foodstuffs, 1752-1755
Account book of domestic expenditure, mainly on foodstuffs, 1752-1755

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An anonymous eighteenth-century recipe book containing culinary, medical and household recipes
An anonymous eighteenth-century recipe book containing culinary, medical and household recipes

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A recipe book in various hands, once in the possession of Mrs Green of Penblaith Farm, Llangarron, Herefordshire, from 1741 to 1764
A recipe book in various hands, once in the possession of Mrs Green of Penblaith Farm, Llangarron, Herefordshire, from 1741 to 1764

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A collection of ordinances and regulations for the government of the royal household, made in divers reigns. From King Edward III. to King William and Queen Mary. Also receipts in ancient cookery
A collection of ordinances and regulations for the government of the royal household, made in divers reigns. From King Edward III. to King William and Queen Mary. Also receipts in ancient cookery

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A collection of ordinances and regulations for the government of the royal household, made in divers reigns. From King Edward III. to King William and Queen Mary. Also receipts in ancient cookery
A collection of ordinances and regulations for the government of the royal household, made in divers reigns. From King Edward III. to King William and Queen Mary. Also receipts in ancient cookery

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A collection of ordinances and regulations for the government of the royal household, made in divers reigns. From King Edward III. to King William and Queen Mary. Also receipts in ancient cookery
A collection of ordinances and regulations for the government of the royal household, made in divers reigns. From King Edward III. to King William and Queen Mary. Also receipts in ancient cookery

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The young ladies school of arts : Containing a great variety of practical receipts... Together with directions for breeding canary birds, and breeding, nursing, and ordering of the silk-worm. Also a great many curious receipts both useful and entertaining, never before published
The young ladies school of arts : Containing a great variety of practical receipts... Together with directions for breeding canary birds, and breeding, nursing, and ordering of the silk-worm. Also a great many curious receipts both useful and entertaining, never before published

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A way to get wealth : containing six principal vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wive may lawfully employ themselves... The first five books gathered by G.M., the last by master W.L. for the benefit of Great Brittain
A way to get wealth : containing six principal vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wive may lawfully employ themselves... The first five books gathered by G.M., the last by master W.L. for the benefit of Great Brittain

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The English house-wife : containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman, as her skill in physick, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent vses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A work generally approued, and now the fourth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome
The English house-wife : containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman, as her skill in physick, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent vses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A work generally approued, and now the fourth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome

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The English hous-wife : containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman... A work generally approved, and now the sixth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this nation
The English hous-wife : containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman... A work generally approved, and now the sixth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this nation

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The accomplished ladies rich closet of rarities, or, The ingenious gentlewoman and servant-maids delightful companion : containing many excellent things for the accomplishment of the female sex, after the most exactest manner and method, viz. 1. The art of distilling. 2. Making artificial wines... 14. The accomplished dairy-maids directions, etc. To which is added, a second part, containing directions for the guidance of a young gentlewoman, as to her behaviour and seemly deportment, etc. Together with a new accession of ma[n]y curious things ... profitable to the female sex, not published in the former editions
The accomplished ladies rich closet of rarities, or, The ingenious gentlewoman and servant-maids delightful companion : containing many excellent things for the accomplishment of the female sex, after the most exactest manner and method, viz. 1. The art of distilling. 2. Making artificial wines... 14. The accomplished dairy-maids directions, etc. To which is added, a second part, containing directions for the guidance of a young gentlewoman, as to her behaviour and seemly deportment, etc. Together with a new accession of ma[n]y curious things ... profitable to the female sex, not published in the former editions

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The English house-wife : containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman, as her skill in physick, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hemp, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting of oates, their excellent uses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold
The English house-wife : containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman, as her skill in physick, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hemp, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting of oates, their excellent uses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold

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