Cheape and good husbandry for the vvell-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, . and for the generall cure of their diseases. Contayning the natures, breeding, choice, vse, feeding, and curing of the diseases of all manner of cattell, as horse, oxe, cow, sheepe, goates, swine, and tame-conies. Shewwing further, the whole art of riding great-horses, with the breaking and ordering of them: and the dieting of the running, hunting, and ambling horse, and the manner how to vse them in their trauaile. Also, approued rules, for the cramming and fatting of all sorts of poultry and fowles, both tame and wilde, &c. ... Together with the vse and profit of bees: the making of fish-ponds, and the taking of all sorts of fish. Gathered together for the generall good and profit of this whole realme, ...
Gervase Markham (c.1569-1637)
Category
Books
Date
1616
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 3081337
Summary
Bibliographic description
[22],182,[2]p. . 4to.. Binding: Seventeenth-century full limp vellum [very worn]; stab stitched with normal thread (four holes); three veullum cords, which pass through the text block, resurface throught the spine a third of the way through the text block, re-enter the spine two thirds of the way through the text block and re-emerge through the back of the text block before being threaded through the limp vellum; remains of paper label.
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.
Makers and roles
Gervase Markham (c.1569-1637)