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Record Nr.

UNISA996388267903316

Autore

Markham Gervase <1568?-1637.>

Titolo

A vvay to get vvealth [[electronic resource] ] : 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 [sic], 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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for A. and J. Churchill, at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, 1695

Edizione

[The fifteenth time corrected and augmented by the author.]

Descrizione fisica

[12], 146, [14], 92, [12], 104, 97-188, [4], 19, [7], 126, [10], 102 p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

LawsonWilliam <fl. 1618.>

Soggetti

Agriculture - England

Home economics - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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 ed., 1683; Country contentments, 11th ed., 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 & 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.



Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018