A way to get wealth
Subtitle: Containing six principal vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As, 1. The nature, 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, ... 2. The knowledge, use, and laudable practice or all the recreations meet for a gentleman. 3. The office of a house-wife, ... 4. The inrichment of the weald in Kent. 5. The husbanding and inriching of all sorts of barren grounds, ... 6. The making of orchards, planting and grafting, 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 thirteenth time corrected, and augmented by the author
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1855:1
Publisher: printed by E.H. for George Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill
Published: 1676
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: 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, 13th ed., 1676; Country contentments, 11th ed., 1675; The English house-wife, 1675; The inrichment of the weald of Kent, 1675; Markham's farewel to husbandry, 1676; Lawson, William.  A new orchard & garden, 1676; The country house-wives garden, 1676. Each has a separate dated title page; all but the last two have separate pagination; register is designed to appear continuous

Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library

Wing (2nd ed.) M681

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1988. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1855:01).