Lot 1341 , [Markham, Gervase - A Way to Get Wealth ... the eighth time corrected ... printed for E. Brewster and George Sawbridge ... 1653]. i.e. lacks general title; but the six parts (each with its own title) complete, and bound

° [Markham, Gervase - A Way to Get Wealth ... the eighth time corrected ... printed for E. Brewster and George Sawbridge ... 1653]. i.e. lacks general title; but the six parts (each with its own title) complete, and bound as - A Cheape and Good Husbandry ...; The English House-Wife ...; The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent (and Sussex) ...; Markhams' Farewell to Husbandry ...; A New Orchard, and Garden/The Country House-Wives Garden ...; Country Contentments ...; overall 26 text engravings, with headpiece decorations and decorated initial letters; & some 846pp.; sometime rebound blind ruled and decorated calf, blind decorated panelled spine with gilt red label, 4to. (1653).
*this copy conforms in signatures and pagination (with its irregularities) to Poynter 34.8
£600-800

Condition:
Period style bndg., sl. wear on spine with sm. tear top of upper joint, e/ps. replaced, some intermittent browning etc., but mostly clean inside; New Orchard (by Wm.Lawson) has the fore-edge notes for the pictorial plan just cropped, with part loss of few words (p.10). Save the first, the individual title imprints are - printed by W.Wilson, for E. Brewster, and George Sawbridge, 1653. The Country House-Wives Garden with its own title-page. Cheape and Good Husbandry imprinted - Printed by Thomas Harper, for John Harrison ...1653 (the supposed year of the latter's death)