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, extration of oiles, banquets, cookery, ordering of feasts, preserving of wine, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hemp, flax, dying, use of dayries, malting, 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, with the best husbanding of bees. /
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| Language: | English |
| Edition: | The seventh time corrected, and augmented by the author. |
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| Item Description: | Head and tail-pieces, initials. Side notes. Each volume has special title page and separate pagination and signatures. [pt.1] Pagination: [28], 188 [i.e. 186], [2] pages; Signatures: A-O⁸ (-B7,8,O7,8) [pt.2] Pagination: [8], 118, [2] pages; Signatures: A⁴ B-H⁸ I⁴ [pt.3] Pagination: [12], 252 pages; Signatures: A-R⁸ (-A7,8,R7,8) [pt.4] Pagination: [4], 24 pages; Signatures: A² B⁸ C⁴ [pt.5] Pagination: [12], 158 [i.e. 168] pages; Signatures: A-L⁸ M⁴ (-A7,8) [pt.6] Pagination: [8], 134, [2] pages; Signatures: A⁴ B-I⁸ K⁴ Comprised of reissues: "Cheape and good husbandry" 7th edition 1648 (Wing M611); "Country contentments:" 6th edition 1649 (Wing M620); "The English house-wife," 5th edition 1649 (Wing M629); "The inrichment of the weald of Kent:" 1649 (Wing M637); "Markhams farewell to husbandry:" 4th edition 1649 (Wing M648); "A new orchard, and garden; ... by William Lawson" 2nd edition 1648 (Wing L730). |
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| Physical Description: | 6 volumes in 1 : illustrations ; 18.5 cm |