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[MARKHAM, Gervase (1568?-1637)]. Cheape and Good Husbandry for the Well-Ordering of all Beasts and Fowles, and for the Generall Cure of their Diseases. London: Bernard Alsop for John Harrison, 1648. 4° (178 x 135mm). Woodcut full-page plan of fishponds, head- and tailpieces, and initials. (Variable spotting and occasional marking, M3 trimmed affecting signature and catchword, lacking final blank O6.) Contemporary speckled sheep, double gilt rules, spine gilt (a little rubbed and chipped, joints split). Seventh edition. Poynter 34.7; Wing M-611.
MARKHAM, G. The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent. London: Elizabeth Purslow for John Harison, 1649. 4° (175 x 138mm). Woodcut headpieces and initials. (Occasional light spotting, some leaves trimmed touching typographic rules, small hole in B1, paper flaw in B4.) Contemporary speckled sheep uniform with the previous volume (rebacked, a little rubbed and scuffed). Poynter 34.7; Wing M-637.
MARKHAM, G. Markhams Farewell to Husbandry. London: William Wilson for John Harison, 1649. 4° (178 x 138mm). Woodcut printer's device on title. Woodcut illustrations, headpieces, and initials. (Light spotting and offsetting, occasional marking, some leaves trimmed touching typographic rules, paper flaws on A5 and G4.) Uniform contemporary speckled sheep (a little rubbed and chipped, joints split, upper cover partially detached). Fifth edition. Goldsmiths' 1008; Poynter 34.7; Wing M-648.
Provenance: 18th-century shelfmarks -- William Charles de Meuron Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (1872-1943, bookplates; by descent to:) -- William Henry Lawrence Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (1910-1948; his sale, Sotheby's, 2 March 1948, lot 252 (ii), and 28 April 1948, lots 958 (i, part) and 959 (iii)).
The three titles are components of the seventh edition of Markham's A Way to Get Wealth (parts 1, 4, and 5). Uniformly bound during the second half of the 17th century, they have remained together as a group since then; the 18th-century shelfmarks suggest that the works may have been acquired by the Whig Prime Minister Charles Wentworth-Watson, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730-1782), as part of the large collection of works on botany and husbandry which passed to the Fitzwilliams upon his death, and thus to the 7th Earl. (3)
MARKHAM, G. The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent. London: Elizabeth Purslow for John Harison, 1649. 4° (175 x 138mm). Woodcut headpieces and initials. (Occasional light spotting, some leaves trimmed touching typographic rules, small hole in B1, paper flaw in B4.) Contemporary speckled sheep uniform with the previous volume (rebacked, a little rubbed and scuffed). Poynter 34.7; Wing M-637.
MARKHAM, G. Markhams Farewell to Husbandry. London: William Wilson for John Harison, 1649. 4° (178 x 138mm). Woodcut printer's device on title. Woodcut illustrations, headpieces, and initials. (Light spotting and offsetting, occasional marking, some leaves trimmed touching typographic rules, paper flaws on A5 and G4.) Uniform contemporary speckled sheep (a little rubbed and chipped, joints split, upper cover partially detached). Fifth edition. Goldsmiths' 1008; Poynter 34.7; Wing M-648.
Provenance: 18th-century shelfmarks -- William Charles de Meuron Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (1872-1943, bookplates; by descent to:) -- William Henry Lawrence Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (1910-1948; his sale, Sotheby's, 2 March 1948, lot 252 (ii), and 28 April 1948, lots 958 (i, part) and 959 (iii)).
The three titles are components of the seventh edition of Markham's A Way to Get Wealth (parts 1, 4, and 5). Uniformly bound during the second half of the 17th century, they have remained together as a group since then; the 18th-century shelfmarks suggest that the works may have been acquired by the Whig Prime Minister Charles Wentworth-Watson, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730-1782), as part of the large collection of works on botany and husbandry which passed to the Fitzwilliams upon his death, and thus to the 7th Earl. (3)
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