A vvay to get vvealth: containing sixe principall 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 cattell and fowle ... II. The knowledge, use, and laudable practise of all the recreations meete for a gentleman. III. The office of a housewife ... IV. The enrichment of the weald in Kent. V. The husbanding, and enriching of all sorts of barren grounds ... VI. The making of orchards ... The first five bookes gathered by G.M. The last by Master W.L. for the benefit of Great Britaine.

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  • A vvay to get vvealth: containing sixe principall 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 cattell and fowle ... II. The knowledge, use, and laudable practise of all the recreations meete for a gentleman. III. The office of a housewife ... IV. The enrichment of the weald in Kent. V. The husbanding, and enriching of all sorts of barren grounds ... VI. The making of orchards ... The first five bookes gathered by G.M. The last by Master W.L. for the benefit of Great Britaine.
  • Way to get wealth Cheape and good husbandry Country contentments English house-wife Inrichment of the vveald of Kent Inrichment of the weald of Kent Markhams farewell to husbandry New orchard and garden Way to get wealth
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Imprint
London: Printed by E[dward] G[riffin] for John Harison, and are to be sold at the Golden Vnicorne in Pater-noster Rowe, 1638.
Publication year
1638-1638
ESTC No.
S112152
Grub Street ID
131916
Description
[28], 132, 135-188, [2]; [8], 118, [2]; [12], 252; [4], 24; [12], 32, 23-158; [8], 133, [3] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 4⁰
Note
A reissue, with added general title page, of "Cheape and good husbandry", 6th ed., 1631; "Country contentments", 5th ed., 1633; "The English house-wife", 5th ed., 1637; "The inrichment of the weald of Kent .. revised, inlarged, and corrected", 1636; "Markhams farewell to husbandry", 4th ed., 1638; all by or edited by Gervase Markham; and "A new orchard and garden", 3rd ed., 1638, by William Lawson.

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Rpm 12/02/96