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A vvay to get vvealth : containing six principal 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 cattel and fowl, fit for the service of man: as also the riding and dieting of horses, ... II. The knowledge, use, and laudable practice of all the recreations meet for a gentleman. III. The office of a house-wife, ... IV. The inrichment of the weald in Kent. V. The husbanding and inriching of all sorts of barren grounds, ... VI. The making of orchards, planting and graffing , the office of gardening, and the ornaments, with the best husbanding of bees. The first five books gathered by G.M. The last by Master W.L. for the benefit of Great-Brittain.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
- Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. Cheap and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases, author.
- Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. Country contentments, author.
- Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. English house-wife, author.
- Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. Inrichment of the weald of Kent, author.
- Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. Farewell to husbandry, author.
- Lawson, William, active 1618. New orchard and garden, author.
- Series:
- Early English books online
- Standardized Title:
- Farewell to husbandry
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--England--Early works to 1800.
- Agriculture.
- Home economics--England--Early works to 1800.
- Home economics.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (12 unnumbered pages, 146 pages, 14 unnumbered pages, 92 pages, 12 unnumbered pages, 104, 97-188 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 19 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 126 pages, 10 unnumbered pages, 102 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- The fifteenth time corrected and augmented by the author.
- Other Title:
- Way to get wealth
- Country house-wives garden.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for A. and J. Churchill, at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, 1695.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- G.M. = Gervase Markham; W.L. = William Lawson.
- Includes: Markham, Gervase. Cheap and good husbandry, for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowls, and for the general cure of their diseases, 14th edition, 1683; Country contentments, 11th edition, 1683; The English house-wife, 1683; The inrichment of the weald of Kent, 1683; Markham's farewel to husbandry, 1684; Lawson, William. A new orchard and garden, 1683; The country house-wives garden, 1684. Each has a separate dated title page; all but the last two have separate pagination.
- Signatures: pi B-2M⁴ 2N² 3A-4F⁴ A-R⁴ A-N⁴ O² .
- Quire 3A mis-signed as 2A.
- Copy includes a leaf of MS. inserted between pp.178-179 of the sixth sequence.
- 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, 1641-1700 ; 1972:10) s1999 miun s
- Cited in:
- Wing (2nd edition) M683.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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