A way to get wealth : containing the sixe principall vocations or callings, in which everie good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As first, the natures, ordering, curing, breeding, choice, use, and feeding of all sorts of cattle and fowle ... Secondly, the knowledge, use, and laudable practice of all the recreations meete for a gentleman. Thirdly, the office of the housewife ... Fourthly, the enrichment of the weald in Kent. Fiftly, the husbanding, and enriching of all sorts of barraine grounds ... Sixtly, the making of orchards ... The first five bookes gathered by G.M. The last by Master W.L. for the benefit of great Britane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.

Lawson, William, active 1618, author.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Early works to 1800.

Agriculture.

Home economics--Early works to 1800.

Home economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (28 unnumbered pages, 188 pages, 2 unnumbered pages; 12 unnumbered pages, 118 pages, 2 unnumbered pages; 12 unnumbered pages, 252; pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 24; pages, 12 unnumbered pages, 158; pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 133 pages, 3 unnumbered pages) : illustrations (woodcuts)

Edition:

All the fift time corrected and augmented by the author.

Other Title:

Cheape and good husbandry.

Country contentments.

English house-vvife.

English house-wife.

Inrichment of the vveald of Kent.

Inrichment of the weald of Kent.

Markhams farewell to husbandry.

Nevv orchard and garden.

New orchard and garden.

Place of Publication:

Printed at London : By Nicholas Okes for John Harrison, at the golden Vnicorne in Pater noster-Row, 1631.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

A reissue, with added general title page, of "Cheape and good husbandry", 5th ed., 1631; "Country contentments", 4th ed., 1631; "The English house-wife", 4th ed., 1631; "The inrichment of the weald of Kent .. revised, inlarged, and corrected", 1631; "Markhams farewell to husbandry", 3rd ed.; all by or edited by Gervase Markham; and "A new orchard and garden", "2nd" edition, 1631, by William Lawson.

The last leaf is blank.

Variant: general title page in another setting, with "corre&ted" [sic] and "Oakes".

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 929:8) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

STC (2nd edition) 17396.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.