A way to get wealth: containing five principall 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 cattell, and fowle, fit for the service of man: as also the riding & dieting horses, either for warre or pleasur. II. The knowledge, use, and laudable practise of all the recreations meet for a gentleman. III. The office of a housewife, in phisick, surgery, ... brewing, baking, and the profit of oates. IV. The enrichment of the weald in Kent. V. The husbanding, & enriching of all sorts of barren grounds, making them equal with the most fruitfull: with the preservation of swine, and computation of men, and cattels labours, &c. VI. The making of orchards, planting and grafting, the office of gardening, & the ornaments, wit the best husbanding of bees. The first five bookes gathered by G.M. The last by Master W.L. for the benefit of great Brittain.

People / Organizations
Imprint
London: printed by B[ernard]. A[lsop]. for Iohn Harison, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls-Chnrch yard [sic], 1648 [i.e. 1649]
Publication year
1649-1649
ESTC No.
R38866
Grub Street ID
120911
Description
[28], 133, 136-188, [10], 118, [10], 252, [4], 24, [12], 158, [8], 134, [2] p. ; 4⁰
Note
Printer's name from Wing CD.

Comprised of reissues: "Cheape and good husbandry" 7th ed. 1648 (Wing M611); "Country contentments:" 6th ed. 1649 (Wing M620); "The English house-wife," 5th ed. 1649 (Wing M629); "The inrichment of the weald of Kent:" 1649 (Wing M637); "Markhams farewell to husbandry:" 4th ed 1649 (Wing M648); "A new orchard, and garden; ... by William Lawson" 2nd ed. 1648 (Wing L730).

"The English house-wife" identified as separately issued Wing M629 on UMI microfilm set "Early English books, 1641-1700", reel 745; "Cheape and good husbandry" identified as separately issued Wing M611 on reel 607; "Country contentments" identified as separately issued Wing M620 on reel 698; "Markhams farewell to husbandry" identified as separately issued Wing M648 on reel 698.Citation/references Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), M675