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MARKHAM, Gervaise (1568?-1637) and William LAWSON. A Way to get Wealth: containing sixe principall vocations, or callings in which every good husband, or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. London: by B.A. for Iohn Harison, 1648[-1649-1648]. 6 parts, 4° (183 x 140mm). woodcut vignette to title of final part, 27 woodcut illustrations. (Title to part 4 shaved with loss, occasional small paperfaults or rustholes, marginal wormtracks.) 20th-century brown calf.
A complete copy of the seventh printing. Wing lists all the parts separately, but Poynter claims that they were never issued as individual works. Poynter 34.7; Wing M-675 (complete work); M-611; M-620; M-629; M-637; M-648; L-730.
SMITH, John (fl. 1633-1673). England's Improvement reviv'd: in a treatise of all manner of husbandry and trade by land and sea. London: Tho[mas] Newcomb for Benjamin Southwood and Israel Harrison, 1673. 4° (202 x 150mm). (A3 & 4 slightly soiled at upper margins.) Contemporary mottled calf, covers panelled in blind (upper cover detached, later label on spine). Provenance: Sa. Davison (early inscription dated 1688) -- C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate). Second edition. Schwerdt II, p.163; Wing S-4093. With 2 others by Markham: Cheape and Good Husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases (1631), STC 17339; The English House-Wife (1631), STC 17353. Both 4° and in modern half calf. (4)
A complete copy of the seventh printing. Wing lists all the parts separately, but Poynter claims that they were never issued as individual works. Poynter 34.7; Wing M-675 (complete work); M-611; M-620; M-629; M-637; M-648; L-730.
SMITH, John (fl. 1633-1673). England's Improvement reviv'd: in a treatise of all manner of husbandry and trade by land and sea. London: Tho[mas] Newcomb for Benjamin Southwood and Israel Harrison, 1673. 4° (202 x 150mm). (A3 & 4 slightly soiled at upper margins.) Contemporary mottled calf, covers panelled in blind (upper cover detached, later label on spine). Provenance: Sa. Davison (early inscription dated 1688) -- C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate). Second edition. Schwerdt II, p.163; Wing S-4093. With 2 others by Markham: Cheape and Good Husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases (1631), STC 17339; The English House-Wife (1631), STC 17353. Both 4° and in modern half calf. (4)
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