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A way to get wealth : containing the sixe principall vocations or callings, in which everie good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As first, the natures, ordering, curing, breeding, choice, use, and feeding of all sorts of cattle and fowle ... Secondly, the knowledge, use, and laudable practice of all the recreations meete for a gentleman. Thirdly, the office of the housewife ... Fourthly, the enrichment of the weald in Kent. Fiftly, the husbanding, and enriching of all sorts of barraine grounds ... Sixtly, the making of orchards ... The first five bookes gathered by G.M. The last by Master W.L. for the benefit of great Britane
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- All the fift time corrected and augmented by the author
- Printed at London : By Nicholas Okes for John Harrison, at the golden Vnicorne in Pater noster-Row, 1631
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- [28], 188, [2]; [12], 118, [2]; [12], 252; [4], 24; [12], 158; [8], 133, [3] p. : ill. (woodcuts)
- A reissue, with added general title page, of "Cheape and good husbandry", 5th ed., 1631; "Country contentments", 4th ed., 1631; "The English house-wife", 4th ed., 1631; "The inrichment of the weald of Kent .. revised, inlarged, and corrected", 1631; "Markhams farewell to husbandry", 3rd ed.; all by or edited by Gervase Markham; and "A new orchard and garden", "2nd" ed., 1631, by William Lawson.
- The last leaf is blank.
- Variant: general title page in another setting, with "corre&ted" [sic] and "Oakes".
- Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
- STC (2nd ed.) 17396.
- Available electronically as part of Early English books online.