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
Measurements
193 x 154 x 58 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Townend, Cumbria
NT 3075383
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.. Contrary to the order of books given on the title page, book II, "Country contentments: or, The husbandmans recreations", has been published or mis-bound as book IV. Imperfect; pp. 67-70 of "The English house-wife" are wanting and have been replaced in ms.. Provenance: manuscript inscription on title page: "George Browne" [i.e. George Browne, 1626-1703]. manuscript inscription on rear fly-leaf: "George Browne book 1807 Troutbeck" [i.e. George Browne, 1779-1838]. manuscript inscription on rear pastedown: "John Browne Troutbeck, Westmorland, June 26th 1831" [John Browne not traced].. Binding: 17th century Cambridge-style calf binding, blind tooled to a rectangular panel design; board edges have faded gilt roll decoration.
Makers and roles
Gervase Markham (c.1569-1637) Simon Harward (fl.1572-1614) William Lawson (fl.1618)