A vvay to get vvealth
Subtitle: containing six principal 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 cattel and fowl, fit for the service of man: as also the riding and dieting of horses, ... II. The knowledge, use, and laudable practice of all the recreations meet for a gentleman. III. The office of a house-wife, ... IV. The inrichment of the weald in Kent. V. The husbanding and inriching of all sorts of barren grounds, ... VI. The making of orchards, planting and graffing [sic], 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
Contributors: Lawson, William, fl. 1618; Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.; Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.; Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.; Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.; Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.; Lawson, William, fl. 1618.
Edition: The fifteenth time corrected and augmented by the author
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1972:10
Publisher: printed for A. and J. Churchill, at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster-Row
Published: 1695
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Agriculture -- England -- Early works to 1800; Home economics -- England -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: Way to get wealth; Country house-wives garden
Work titles: Farewell to husbandry
Notes: G.M. = Gervase Markham; W.L. = William Lawson

Includes: Markham, Gervase.  Cheap and good husbandry, for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowls, and for the general cure of their diseases, 14th ed., 1683; Country contentments, 11th ed., 1683; The English house-wife, 1683; The inrichment of the weald of Kent, 1683; Markham's farewel to husbandry, 1684; Lawson, William.  A new orchard & garden, 1683; The country house-wives garden, 1684. Each has a separate dated title page; all but the last two have separate pagination

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Quire 3A mis-signed as 2A

Copy includes a leaf of MS. inserted between pp.178-179 of the sixth sequence

Reproduction of the original in the British Library

Wing (2nd ed.) M683

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1989. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1972:10).