A vvay to get vvealth: containing six principal vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As, I. The natures, ordering, curing, breeding, choice, use and feeding of all sorts of cattle and fowl, fit for the service of man: as also the riding and dieting of horses, ... II. The knowledge, use, and laudable practice of all the recreations meet for a gentleman. III. The office of a house-wife, ... IV. The inrichment of the weald in Kent. V. The husbanding and inriching of all sorts of barren grounds, ... VI. The making of orchards, planting and graffing [sic], the office of gardening, and the ornaments, with the best husbanding of bees. The first five books gathered by G.M. The last by Master W.L. for the benefit of Great-Brittain

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  • A vvay to get vvealth: containing six principal vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As, I. The natures, ordering, curing, breeding, choice, use and feeding of all sorts of cattle and fowl, fit for the service of man: as also the riding and dieting of horses, ... II. The knowledge, use, and laudable practice of all the recreations meet for a gentleman. III. The office of a house-wife, ... IV. The inrichment of the weald in Kent. V. The husbanding and inriching of all sorts of barren grounds, ... VI. The making of orchards, planting and graffing [sic], the office of gardening, and the ornaments, with the best husbanding of bees. The first five books gathered by G.M. The last by Master W.L. for the benefit of Great-Brittain
  • Way to get wealth; Country house-wives garden
  • Markhams farewell to husbandry.
People / Organizations
Imprint
London : printed for A. and J. Churchill, at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, 1695. The fifteenth time corrected and augmented by the author.; ..
Added name
Lawson, William, active 1618.; Lawson, William, active 1618. New orchard and garden.; Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. Cheap and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases.; Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. Country contentments.; Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. English house-wife.; Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. Farewell to husbandry.; Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. Inrichment of the weald of Kent.
Publication year
1695
ESTC No.
R217362
Grub Street ID
92152
Description
[12], 146, [14], 92, [12], 104, 97-188, [4], 19, [7], 126, [10], 102 p. : ill. ; 4°.
Note
G.M. = Gervase Markham; W.L. = William Lawson

A collection of reissues with a general title page. Includes: Markham, Gervase. Cheap and good husbandry, for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowls, and for the general cure of their diseases, 14th ed., 1683; Country contentments, 11th ed., 1683; The English house-wife, 1683; The inrichment of the weald of Kent, 1683; Markham's farewel to husbandry, 1684; Lawson, William. A new orchard & garden, 1683; The country house-wives garden, 1684. Each has a separate dated title page; all but the last two have separate pagination

Signatures: pi]8] B-X]4] 2A-2M]4] 2N]2] 3A-4B]4] 4C]2] 4D-4F]4] A-R]4] A-N]4] O]2

Quire 3A mis-signed as 2A.