A way to get wealth. Containing six principall vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife, may lawfully imploy themselves ... / The first five bookes gathered by G[ervase] M[arkham]. The last by Master W[illiam] L[awson].

  • Gervase Markham
Date:
1653
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

London : Printed for E. Brewster and G. Sawbridge, 1653.

Physical description

6 volumes in 1 : illustrations, woodcuts ; (4to)

Edition

The eighth time cor. and augm. by the author.

Notes

Each book has also special t.-p
Copy 1 Note: Pts. IV-V have continuous signatures. Wanting from this copy are: general t.p., pt. I, sigs. A2-8 (incl. t.p.), D1-8 and 06; pt. III

Contents

Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowles ... 8th ed., 1653.--Country contentments: or, The husbandmans recreations ... 7th ed., 1654.--The English hous-wife ... 5th ed., 1653.--The inrichment of the weald of Kent ... 1653.--Markhams farewell to husbandry: or, The enriching of all sorts of barren and sterile grounds ... 5th ed., 1653.--A new orchard and garden ... with The country houswifes garden ... by William Lawson, 2nd ed., 1653 ... [and] the Art of propagating plants ... [by S. Harward] 1653

References note

Wing M676
Poynter 34.8
ESTC R32526
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), M676

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