A vvay to get vvealth : containing six principal 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 cattel and fowl, fit for the service of man: as also the riding and dieting of horses, ... II. The knowledge, use, and laudable practice of all the recreations meet for a gentleman. III. The office of a house-wife, ... IV. The inrichment of the weald in Kent. V. The husbanding and inriching of all sorts of barren grounds, ... VI. The making of orchards, planting and graffing [sic], 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.
| Author/creator | Markham, Gervase |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | The fifteenth time corrected and augmented by the author. |
| Publication Info | London : Printed for A. and J. Churchill, at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, 1695. |
| Description | [12], 146, [14], 92, [12], 104, 97-188, [4], 19, [7], 126, [10], 102 p. : ill. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2248496866 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Lawson, William, fl. 1618. |
| Other author/creator | Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. Cheap and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases. |
| Other author/creator | Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. Country contentments. |
| Other author/creator | Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. English house-wife. |
| Other author/creator | Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. Inrichment of the weald of Kent. |
| Other author/creator | Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. Farewell to husbandry. |
| Other author/creator | Lawson, William, fl. 1618. New orchard and garden. |
| Uniform title | Farewell to husbandry. |
| Variant title | Way to get wealth |
| Variant title | Country house-wives garden. |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | G.M. = Gervase Markham; W.L. = William Lawson. |
| General note | 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., 1683; The English house-wife, 1683; The inrichment of the weald of Kent, 1683; Markham's farewel to husbandry, 1684; Lawson, William. A new orchard & garden, 1683; The country house-wives garden, 1684. Each has a separate dated title page; all but the last two have separate pagination. |
| General note | Signatures: pi B-2M⁴ 2N² 3A-4F⁴ A-R⁴ A-N⁴ O² . |
| General note | Quire 3A mis-signed as 2A. |
| General note | Copy includes a leaf of MS. inserted between pp.178-179 of the sixth sequence. |
| General note | Reproduction of the original in the British Library. |
| References | Wing (2nd ed.) M683. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1972:10) |
| Stock number | CL0037000077 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 |
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