A way to get wealth: . containing six principall vocations, or callings, in which every good husband, or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As, 1. 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 war or pleasure. 2. The knowledge, use, and laudable practise of all the recreations meet for a gentleman. 3. The office of a house-wife, in physick, chyrurgery, extraction of oyles, 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. 4. The enrichment of the weald in Kent. 5. The husbanding, & enriching of all sorts of barren grounds, making them equall with the most fruitfull: with the preservation of swine, and a computation of men, and cattels labours, &c. 6. The making of orchards, planting and grafting, the office of gardening, and the ornaments, with the best husbanding of bees.
Gervase Markham (c.1569-1637)
Category
Books
Date
1653
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Scotney Castle, Kent
NT 3111924
Summary
Bibliographic description
[28], 188, [2]; [10], 188, [4], 20, [6], 126, [4], [4], 92, [4], [6], 56, [2], 69-112 p. . ill.. (woodcuts) . 4to in 8s.. Provenance: Label in red: Scotney Castle Lamberhurst. - Inscription on title page in ink. Binding: Seventeenth-century mottled calf, red spine-label, gold-lettered. - Final pages torn with loss of text. - MSS text on leaf used for front endpaper. - Loosely inserted modern catalogue card in blue ink, refers to 'Wing: M.676 Three copies only'.
Makers and roles
Gervase Markham (c.1569-1637) Simon Harward (fl.1572-1614) William Lawson (fl.1618)