A way to get vvealth: containing six principal vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wive may lawfully imploy themselves. As, I. The natures, ordereing, curing, breeding, choice, use and feeding of all sorts of cattel and fowl, fit for the service of man: as also the riding and dieting of horses, either for war or pleasure. II. The knowledge, use and laudable practice of all the recreations meet for a gentleman. III. The office of a house-wife, in physick, chirurgery, extraction of oyles, banquets, cookery, ordering of feasts, perserving of wine, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wool, hemp, flax, dying, use of dayries, maulting, brewing, baking: and the profit of oats. IV. The inrichment of the weald in Kent. V. The husbanding and inriching of all sorts of barren grounds making them equal with the most fruitful with the preservation of swine. And a computation of men and cattels labours, &c. VI. The making of orchards, planting and graffing

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  • A way to get vvealth: containing six principal vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wive may lawfully imploy themselves. As, I. The natures, ordereing, curing, breeding, choice, use and feeding of all sorts of cattel and fowl, fit for the service of man: as also the riding and dieting of horses, either for war or pleasure. II. The knowledge, use and laudable practice of all the recreations meet for a gentleman. III. The office of a house-wife, in physick, chirurgery, extraction of oyles, banquets, cookery, ordering of feasts, perserving of wine, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wool, hemp, flax, dying, use of dayries, maulting, brewing, baking: and the profit of oats. IV. The inrichment of the weald in Kent. V. The husbanding and inriching of all sorts of barren grounds making them equal with the most fruitful with the preservation of swine. And a computation of men and cattels labours, &c. VI. The making of orchards, planting and graffing
  • Way to get wealth
  • Cheap and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts.
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Imprint
London: printed by T[homas]. B[raddyll]. for Hannah Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill, 1683.
Publication year
1683-1683
ESTC No.
R31884
Grub Street ID
114640
Description
[12], 146, [10]; [4], 92, [4]; [8], 80, 73-88, 97-104, 97-188; [4], 19, [1]; [6], 126, [4]; [6], 102 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 4⁰
Note
Printer s name from Wing (CD-ROM, 1996).

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., 1675; The English house-wife, 1675; The inrichment of the weald of Kent, 1675; Markham's farewel to husbandry, 1676; Lawson, William. A new orchard & garden, 1676; The country house-wives garden, 1684. Each has a separate dated title page; all but the last two have separate pagination.
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