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MARKHAM, Gervase (1568?-1637). Country Contentments. Or, the Husbandmans Recreations...As name ly [sic], Hunting, Hawking, Coursing with Grayhounds, and the Lawes of Lease, Shooting in the Longbow or Crossbow, Bouling, Tennis, Baloone: the Whole Art of Angling, and the Use of the Fighting Cock. London: W. Wilson for E. Brewster and George Sawbridge, 1656.
4° (181 x 137mm). A few woodcut initials and headpieces. (Some staining and soiling, short scissor cuts in top margins of C2&3.) Early 20th-century vellum gilt, black leather longitudinal title-label on spine, top edges gilt. Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (gilt arms on spine and bookplate; his sale, 11 March 1946, lot 1733, part lot).
Eighth edition. This is part 2 of Markham's A Way to get Wealth, but it is also found separately, as here. First published on its own in 1615, it contained entirely new material on hunting, hawking, coursing and fishing as well as very short sections on bowls, shooting, balloon and tennis. This latter he describes as 'Not inferiour to these sports, either for health or action, are the Tenise, or Baloone; the first being a pastime in close or open Courts, striking a little round ball to and fro, either with the palmes of the hande, or with Racket'. SCHWERDT COPY. Poynter 34.9; Schwerdt II, p.11; Wing M-622.
4° (181 x 137mm). A few woodcut initials and headpieces. (Some staining and soiling, short scissor cuts in top margins of C2&3.) Early 20th-century vellum gilt, black leather longitudinal title-label on spine, top edges gilt. Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (gilt arms on spine and bookplate; his sale, 11 March 1946, lot 1733, part lot).
Eighth edition. This is part 2 of Markham's A Way to get Wealth, but it is also found separately, as here. First published on its own in 1615, it contained entirely new material on hunting, hawking, coursing and fishing as well as very short sections on bowls, shooting, balloon and tennis. This latter he describes as 'Not inferiour to these sports, either for health or action, are the Tenise, or Baloone; the first being a pastime in close or open Courts, striking a little round ball to and fro, either with the palmes of the hande, or with Racket'. SCHWERDT COPY. Poynter 34.9; Schwerdt II, p.11; Wing M-622.
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