A way to get wealth: . containing sixe principall 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 cattell, and fowle, fit for the service of man: as also the riding & dieting horses, either for warre or pleasur. II. The knowleage, use, and laudable practise of all the recreations meet for a gentleman. III. The office of a housewife, in phisick, surgery, extraction of oiles, banquets, cookery, ordering of feasts, preserving of wine, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hemp, flax, dying, use of dayries, malting, brewing, baking, and the profit of oates. IV. The enrichment of the weald in Kent. V. The husbanding, & enriching of all sorts of barren grounds, making them equal with the most fruitfull: with the preservation of swine, and a computation of men, and cattels labours, &c. VI. The making of orchards, planting and grafting, the office of gardening, & the ornaments, with the best husbanding of bees. The first five bookes gathered by G. M. The last made by Master W. L. for the benefit of great Brittain.
Gervase Markham (c.1569-1637)
Category
Books
Date
1648
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3075382
Summary
Bibliographic description
[28],188,[2];[12],52[i.e. 252];[4],24;[8],118,[2];[12],158;[8],134,[2]p. . ill.. (woodcuts) . 4to in 8s.. Front and rear flyleaves and pastedowns covered in seventeenth-century manuscript notes on cures for horses. Provenance: Seventeenth-century manuscript inscription: G. B. Bennett [unidentified]; Nineteenth-century small Baronet's badge bookplate, with Harpur & Crewe crests, with inscription: Calke Abbey Library [associated with Sir George Crewe, 8th Baronet (1795-1844)]. Binding: Seventeenth-century full sprinkled leather binding; quarter blind fillet; blind fillet border; spine gilt decorated and spine label gilt lettered.
Makers and roles
Gervase Markham (c.1569-1637) Simon Harward (fl.1572-1614) William Lawson (fl.1618)