Country contentments: or, The husbandmans recreations : Contayning the wholsome experiences, in which any man ought to recreate himselfe, after the toyle of more serious businesse. As namely, hunting, hawking, coursing with grey-hounds, and the lawes of the lease, shooting in longbow or crosbow, bowling, tennis, baloone. The whole art of angling, and the vse of the fighting cock. By G.M.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horsemanship--Early works to 1800.

Horsemanship.

Hunting--Early works to 1800.

Hunting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8 unnumbered pages, 118 pages)

Edition:

The fift edition. [Newly corrected, enlarged, and adorned with many excellent additions, as may appeare by this marke, [pointing hand].

Other Title:

Country contentments

Husbandmans recreations.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Thomas Harper for Iohn Harison, at the golden Vnicorne in Pater-noster-row, 1633.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Dedication signed: Geruase Markham.

Also issued as part 2 of his: A way to get wealth (STC 17396.5).

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1027:04) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

STC (2nd edition) 17345.

Access Restriction:

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