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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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/B/35472/1Location Access Closed storesEPB/B/35472/1.v1.1Note