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
EditionThe fifteenth time corrected and augmented by the author.
Publication InfoLondon : 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.
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Other author/creatorLawson, William, fl. 1618.
Other author/creatorMarkham, 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/creatorMarkham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. Country contentments.
Other author/creatorMarkham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. English house-wife.
Other author/creatorMarkham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. Inrichment of the weald of Kent.
Other author/creatorMarkham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. Farewell to husbandry.
Other author/creatorLawson, William, fl. 1618. New orchard and garden.
Uniform titleFarewell to husbandry.
Variant title Way to get wealth
Variant title Country house-wives garden.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteG.M. = Gervase Markham; W.L. = William Lawson.
General noteIncludes: 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 noteSignatures: pi B-2M⁴ 2N² 3A-4F⁴ A-R⁴ A-N⁴ O² .
General noteQuire 3A mis-signed as 2A.
General noteCopy includes a leaf of MS. inserted between pp.178-179 of the sixth sequence.
General noteReproduction of the original in the British Library.
References Wing (2nd ed.) M683.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1972:10)
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