A way to get wealth. Containing six principal vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As, 1. The nature, ordering, curing, breeding, choice, use, and feeding of all sorts of cattel, and fowl, fit for the service o man: as also the riding and dieting of horses, ... 2. The knowledge, use, and laudable practice or all the recreations meet for a gentleman. 3. The office of a house-wife, ... 4. The inrichment of the weald in Kent. 5. The husbanding and inriching of all sorts of barren grounds, ... 6. The making of orchards, planting and grafting, 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.

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  • A way to get wealth. Containing six principal vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As, 1. The nature, ordering, curing, breeding, choice, use, and feeding of all sorts of cattel, and fowl, fit for the service o man: as also the riding and dieting of horses, ... 2. The knowledge, use, and laudable practice or all the recreations meet for a gentleman. 3. The office of a house-wife, ... 4. The inrichment of the weald in Kent. 5. The husbanding and inriching of all sorts of barren grounds, ... 6. The making of orchards, planting and grafting, 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.
  • Country house-wives garden
  • Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases.
People / Organizations
Imprint
London: printed by E.H. for George Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill, 1676.
Publication year
1676-1676
ESTC No.
R216245
Grub Street ID
91171
Description
[12], 146, [14], 92, [12], 80, 73-88, 97-104, 97-188, [4], 19, [7], 126, [10], 102 p. : ill. ; 4⁰
Note
G.M. = Gervase Markham; W.L. = William Lawson.

Includes: Markham, Gervase. Cheap and good husbandry, for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowls, and for the general cure of their diseases, 13th ed., 1676; Country contentments, 11th ed., 1675; The English house-wife, 1675; The inrichment of the weald of Kent, 1675; Markham's farewel to husbandry, 1676; Lawson, William. A new orchard & garden, 1676; The country house-wives garden, 1676. Each has a separate dated title page; all but the last two have separate pagination; register is designed to appear continuous.Citation/references Wing (2nd ed.), M681