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A Way to Get Wealth: Containing Six Principal Vocations, or Callings, in Which every Good Husband or House-wife, May Lawfully imploy themselves... Author: Markham, Gervase Place Published: London Publisher: Printed by T.B. for Hannah Sawbridge Date Published: 1683 Description: 6 parts in 1. With general title and additional title pages for each section. [12], 146, [10]; [4], 92, [4]; [8], 188; [4], 19, [1]; [6], 126, [4]; [6], 102 pp. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations. (4to) 19x13.5 cm (7½x5½"), period calf rebacked with modern calf, spine tooled in gilt, raised bands, morocco lettering piece. A very nice, complete copy of one of the most popular general household books of the 17th century, with fifteen editions before 1700 - the present copy is stated "The Fourteenth time Corrected and Augmented by the Author." The sections include "Cheap and Good Husbandry, for the Well-Ordering of all Beasts and Fowls..."; "Country Contentments; or the Husbandmans Recreations... as namely, Hunting, Hawking, Coursing the Grey-Hounds..."; "The English House-Wife, containing The inward and outward Vertues which ought to be in a Compleat Woman..."; etc. Over the years many copies have been broken up and the parts sold separately, and complete copies are now quite scarce. Wing M682. Condition: Normal, but minor, wear to covers; a few instances of slight marginal worming; very good or better. Item#: 359761 Headline: Markham's Way to Get Wealth, 1683