Cheape and good husbandry for the vvell-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases : Contayning the natures, breeding, choice, vse, feeding, and curing of the diseases of all manner of cattell, as horse, oxe, cow, sheepe, goates, swine, and tame-conies. Shewwing further, the whole art of riding great-horses, with the breaking and ordering of them: and the dieting of the running, hunting, and ambling horse, and the manner how to vse them in their trauaile. Also, approued rules, for the cramming and fatting of all sorts of poultry and fowles, both tame and wilde, &c. ... Together with the vse and profit of bees: the making of fish-ponds, and the taking of all sorts of fish. Gathered together for the generall good and profit of this whole realme.
- Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
- Date:
- 1616
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Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases
Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases.
Publication/Creation
London : Printed by T.S[nodham] for Roger Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere the Conduit in Fleetstreet, 1616.
Physical description
22 unnumbered pages, 182 pages
Notes
"The epistle dedicatory" and "To the courteous reader" signed: G.M. [i.e. Gervase Markham].
Printer's name from STC.
In two books; pagination and signatures continuous.
"The second booke. Of poultrie" has caption title.
Another edition, enlarged, of STC 17336, published in 1614.
Includes an abridged version of STC 17350: Gervase Markham. How to chuse, ride, trayne, and dyet, both hunting-horses and running horses.
Print faded and show-through.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
References note
STC (2nd ed.) 17337.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 813:06) s1999 miun s