A vvay to get wealth containing six principall vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As, 1. The natures, ordering, curing, ... 6. The making of orchards, planting and grassing, 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

All titles

• A vvay to get wealth containing six principall vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As, 1. The natures, ordering, curing, ... 6. The making of orchards, planting and grassing, 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
• English house-wife.; Inrichment of the weald of Kent.; Markham's farewel to husbandry.; Cheap and good husbandry.; Country house-wife's garden.; Enrichment of the weald of Kent.

People / Organizations

• Gervase Markham (Author)

Imprint

London : printed by John Streater, for George Sawbridge, at his house on Clarken-well-green, 1668. The twelfth time corrected, and augemented by the author.; ..

Added name

Lawson, William, active 1618. New orchard and garden.

Publication year

1668

ESTC No.

R32527

Grub Street ID

115234

Description

[12], 146, [14], 92, [12], 188, [4], 19, [7], 126, [10], 102 p. ; 4°.

Note

"Cheap and good husbandry"- 12th ed. 1668, "Country contentments. Or, The husbandmans recreations."- 10th ed. 1668, "The English house-wife"- 8th ed. 1668, "The inrichment of the weald of Kent."- Rev., enl., and corr. 1668, "Markham's farewel to husbandry:"- 9th ed. 1668, "A new orchard and garden ... by William Lawson"- 5th ed. 1668 and "The country house-wife's garden"- 1668 all have separate title pages, with separate pagination

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