A way to get vvealth : containing six principall vocations, or callings, in which every good husband, or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves : as, I. the natures, ordering, curing, breeding, choyce, use, and feeding, of all sorts of cattell, and fowle, fit for the service of man, as also the riding & dieting horses, either for war or pleasure : 2. the knowledge, use, and laudable practice of all the recreations meet for a gentleman : 3. the office of a house-wife, in physick, chyryrgery, extraction of oyles, 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 : 4. the enrichment of the weald in Kent : 5. the husbanding, & enriching of all sorts of barren grounds, making them equall with the most fruitfull, with the preservation of swine, and a computation of men, and cattels labours, &c. : 6. the making of orchards, planting and grafting, the office of gardening, and the ornaments, with the best husbanding of bees /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Other Authors: Harward, Simon, active 1572-1614, Lawson, William, active 1618
Format: Book
Language:English
Edition:The eighth time corrected, and augmented by the authour.
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Description
Item Description:Comprised of reissues of the following, each with separate dated title page, pagination, and register: "Cheape and good husbandry" 8th edition, 1653 (Wing M612); "Country contentments" 7th edition, 1654 (Wing M621); "The English hous-wife", 5th edition 1653 (Wing M630); "The inrichment of the weald of Kent" 1653, (Wing M638); "Markhams farewell to husbandry" (part of Wing M638); and "A new orchard, and garden; ... by William Lawson", 1653 (Wing L731).
"Cheape and good husbandry" has imprint: London: Printed by Thomas Harper, for John Harrison, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls-Church Yard; all other works have imprint: London: Printed by W. Wilson, for E. Brewster and George Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate-hill neere Fleet-bridge.
"A new orchard and garden" by William Lawson is in four parts, continuously paged. "The country house-wives garden" has divisional title page; "A most profitable new treatise ... of the art of propagating plants by Simon Harvvard"; and "The husband mans fruitfull orchard" have caption titles.
Numerous errors in pagination.
Signatures: A⁸ B⁶ C-N⁸ O⁶, ²A-M⁴ ²N², ³A² a⁴⁻¹ ³B-N⁸ ²O², ⁴A-V⁴, ⁵A-N⁴ ³O².
Leaf O6 of first sequence is blank.
Title vignettes; head- and tail-pieces; initials; printed marginal notes.
Physical Description:28 unnumbered pages, 133, 136-188 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 92 pages, 14 unnumbered pages, 68, 61-188 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 20 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 126 pages, 10 unnumbered pages, 56 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 69-112 pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19 cm (quarto)
Place of Publication:Great Britain -- England -- London.