A way to get wealth: containing the sixe principall vocations or callings, in which everie good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As first, the natures ordering, curing, breeding, choice, use, and feeding of all sorts of cattle and fowle, ... Secondly the knowledge, use, and laudable practice of all the recreations meete for a gentleman. Thirdly, the office of the housewife, ... Fourthly, the enrichment of the weald in Kent. Fiftly, the husbanding, and enriching of all sorts of barraine grounds, ... Sixtly, the making of orchards, ... The first five bookes gathered by G.M. The last by Master W.L. for the benefit of great Britane.

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  • A way to get wealth: containing the sixe principall vocations or callings, in which everie good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As first, the natures ordering, curing, breeding, choice, use, and feeding of all sorts of cattle and fowle, ... Secondly the knowledge, use, and laudable practice of all the recreations meete for a gentleman. Thirdly, the office of the housewife, ... Fourthly, the enrichment of the weald in Kent. Fiftly, the husbanding, and enriching of all sorts of barraine grounds, ... Sixtly, the making of orchards, ... The first five bookes gathered by G.M. The last by Master W.L. for the benefit of great Britane.
  • Cheape and good husbandry Country contentments English house-vvife English house-wife Inrichment of the vveald of Kent Inrichment of the weald of Kent Markhams farewell to husbandry Nevv orchard and garden New orchard and garden
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Imprint
Printed at London: By Nicholas Okes for John Harrison, at the golden Vnicorne in Pater noster-Row, 1631.
Publication year
1631-1631
ESTC No.
S112108
Grub Street ID
131874
Description
[28], 188, [2]; [12], 118, [2]; [12], 252; [4], 24; [12], 158; [8], 133, [3] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 4⁰
Note
A reissue, with added general title page, of "Cheape and good husbandry", 5th ed., 1631; "Country contentments", 4th ed., 1631; "The English house-vvife", 4th ed., 1631; "The inrichment of the vveald of Kent .. revised, inlarged, and corrected", 1631; "Markhams farewell to husbandry", 3rd ed.; all by or edited by Gervase Markham; and "A nevv orchard and garden", "2nd" ed., 1631, by William Lawson.

The last leaf is blank.

Variant: general title page in another setting, with "corre&ted" [sic] and "Oakes".

Signatures: A?(±A1) B? C-N? O?, ?A? ?B-H? ?I?, ?A? ?B-Q? ?R?, ?A? ?B? ?C?, ?A? ?B-L? ?M?, ?A? ?B-I? ?K?(-K4).
Uncontrolled note
Verify lack of pagination on last p. [134]; there is evidently a number, but indistinct