A vvay 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, ... 6. The making of orchards, planting and grassing, 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.
Gervase Markham (c.1569-1637)
Category
Books
Date
1668
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3237457
Summary
Bibliographic description
The twelfth time corrected, and augemented by the author.. [12], 146, [14], 92, [12], 188, [4], 19, [7], 126, [10], 102 p. ;. 4to. Accession no. 4475. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: manuscript inscription on titlepage of Vere Fane, 1672 (fourth earl of Westmorland (1645-1693)]; Earl of Westmorland; manuscript label inside front cover of John Fane, dated 1856; Francis W.H. Fane, twelfth earl (sale 13 July 1887). Binding: original contemporary English sprinkled calf, blind fillet quarter left, plain spine with nineteenth-century lettering-piece.
Makers and roles
Gervase Markham (c.1569-1637) Lawson, William, active 1618