A WAY TO GET WEALTH CONTAINING SIX PRINCIPALL VOCATIONS, OR CALLINGS, IN WHICH EVERY GOOD HUSBAND OR HOUSE-WIFE MAY LAWFULLY IMPLOY THEMSELVES

London: Printed by John Streater, for George Sawbridge, 1668. Twelfth Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. The twelfth edition of Gervase Markham's A VVay to Get Wealth. A popular handbook for gardening, outdoor sports, and agriculture, which Poynter states "must have received a great deal of ill-usage and it is not surprising that so few copies of the various editions have survived" (pp. 153-154). With engraved illustrations, tables, headpieces, tailpieces, initials, and some title pages illustrated; general title page and divisional title pages; separate pagination for the six sections, with an additional title page for the House-Wife's Garden. Cheap and Good Husbandry; Country Contentments; The English House-Wife; The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent; Markham's Farewell to Husbandry; A New Orchard and Garden; and The Country House-Wife's Garden. Lacking the final leaf, else collates complete against the ESTC: [12], 146, [14], 92, [12], 188, [4], 19, [7], 126, [10], 102 pp. Small chip to the bottom corner of the title page, affecting a two characters only of the publication. Previous owners' names on the front endpapers, and one on the title page; nameplate on the front flyleaf. Some trimming to the top edge, not affecting the text. Full mottle calf, with Japanese tissue on the joints and extremities of the spine. Very Good. (ESTC R32527. Poynter Bibliography of Gervase Markham, 153-154. Fussell Old English Farming Books, 29-31. Aslin Books on Agriculture, 87. Bitting Gastronomic Bibliography, 309. Cecil Bibliography of Works on Gardening, 11-12.). Very Good binding.