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 of 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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
printed by E.H. for George Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill,
1676.
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| Edition: | The thirteenth time corrected, and augmented by the author. |
| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Item Description: | 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 edition, 1676; Country contentments, 11th edition, 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 and 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. Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([12], 146, [14], 92, [12], 104, 97-188, [4], 19, [7], 126, [10], 102 pages : illustrations. |