A way to get vvealth, by approued rules of practice in good husbandry and huswifrie : containing the foure principall offices which support and maintaine a familie as first, the husbanding and inriching of all sorts of grounds ..., secondly, the ordering and curing, with the natures, breeding, choice, vse, and feeding of all sorts of cattell and fowle ..., thirdly, the office of the English housewife in physicke, surgerie, extraction of oyles ..., fourthly, the office of planting and grafting, and the inriching of grounds for that purpose ... / the first three bookes gathered by G.M., the last by Mr. William Lawson ; for the benefit of the empire of Great Britaine ; and all these newly corrected and augmented by the authors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Great Britain.

Agriculture.

Great Britain.

Home economics--Early works to 1800.

Home economics.

Agriculture--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (926 pages in various pagings) : illustrations

Other Title:

Way to get wealth.

Place of Publication:

Printed at London : For Roger Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleetstreet conduit, 1625.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Markhams farwell to husbandry, or, The inriching of all sorts of barren and sterile grounds in our Kingdome, 1625.

Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases, 1623.

Countrey contentments, or, The English husvvife, 1623.

A new orchard and garden, or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich orchard, 1623.

The country housewifes garden, 1623.

The feminine monarchie, or, The historie of bees ... / written out of experience by Charles Butler, 1623.

Notes:

Each section has special t.p. and separate pagination.

Signatures: [pi]¹ A-X⁴ [par.]⁴, ²A-2A⁴ 2B², ³A-2G⁴ 2H³, ⁴A-O⁴, ⁵[par.]⁴ A⁶ B-Z⁴ (last leaf blank).

Numerous errors in paging.

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes marginal notes.

Imperfect: print show-through and pages cropped with slight loss of printing.

Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1820:21) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

STC (2nd edition) 17395.5

Contains:

Butler, Charles, -1647. Feminine monarchie.

Lawson, William, active 1618. New orchard and garden.

Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases.

Countrey contentments, or, The English husvvife.

New orchard and garden, or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich orchard.

Feminine monarchie, or, The historie of bees.

Markhams farwell to husbandry, or, The inriching of all sorts of barren and sterile grounds in our Kingdome.

OCLC:

24237584

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