Description
John Harrison, London, 1638 . later edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. A Way to Get Wealth 1638. A good collection of six important early Markham Husbandry works bound in one. Period full calf, rebacked preserving the original spine. Corners worn and with small wear to leather. Later endpapers. Lacking the general title but with all sectional titles and otherwise collates complete : a) Cheape and good Husbandry For the well-Ordering of all Beasts and Fowles, and for the genrall Cure of their Diseases,' sixth edition, A3-B4 (pp.10), pp.188, page 92 written as 65, some toning and minor fraying to leaf edges printed by Anne Griffin for John Harrison, London, 1631 b) Country Contentments: Or, The Husbandmans Recreations,' fifth edition, title with woodcut printer's device, A2-A3 (pp. 3), pp. 118, small hole to page 17 affecting text, otherwise vg, Thomas Harperfor John Harrison, London, 1633 c) The English House-Wife, Containing the inward and outward Vertues which ought to be in a complete Woman,' title with woodcut printer's device, A3, pp.252, mild toning. Anne Griffin for John Harrison, London, 1637, 5th edition. d) The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent: Or, A Direction to the Husband-man,' title with woodcut printer's device, A2 pp. 24, 1636. 3rd edition e) Markhams Farwell to Husbandry,' A2-A3, pp.153, woodcuts, Edward Griffin for John Harison, 1638. 5th edition f) A New Orchard and Garden, Or The Best way for planting, grafting, and to make the ground good, for a rich Orchard,' woodcut to titlepage, A-2-A4, [8] 123pp woodcuts throughout, light dampstaining to edge of leaves, 1638. 4th edition. Note F6 (unpaginated p75/76) is a further title page The Country House-Wives Garden, Containing Rules for Hearbs and Seeds...,' separately imprinted as Anne Griffin for John Harrison, London, 1637, but pagination is complete to p123 Superb collection of early Markham imprints all 1630's covering crop cultivation, livestock rearing, and land management, orchard management, bee keeping, wine making, receipts for various dishes, distillation, brewing, preserving wine, dying of wool, dairy produce, perfumes, hemp and flax, and even baldness and bad breath etc
