Markhams Farewel To Husbandry Markham, Gervase 2023,Gardens, Landscape & Agriculture

MARKHAM, Gervase. Markhams Farewel to Husbandry: or, The enriching of all sorts of barren and sterile grounds in our nation, to be as fruitful in all manner of grain, pulse, and grass, as the best grounds whatsoever. Together with the annoyances, and preservation of all grain and seed, from one year to many years. As also a husbandly computation of men and cattels daily labours, their expences, charges, and utmost profits. Now newly the ninth time revis'd, corrected and amended, together with many new additions, and cheap experiments: for the bettering of arable pasture, and woody grounds: of making good all grounds again, spoiled with over-flowing of salt water by sea breaches; as also the enriching of the hop-garden. And many other things never published before. [6], 126, [4]pp table., 10 woodcuts in the text. Some browning to the final leaf, and the inner margin of the title-page, otherwise a clean copy with occasional minor marks and toning. Disbound. First published in 1620. 4to. Printed for E.O. for George Sawbridge. 1668. ESTC R216241, Birmingham, BL, Ushaw, Wellcome; Harvard, UCLA, Penn, Toronto, Yale. ~ Gervase Markham (1568?-1637) was a prolific writer whose works covered literature, horsemanship, veterinary medicine, husbandry, domestic economy, farriery, hunting, hawking fowling, fishing, archery, heraldry, and military training, with an output facilitated by his tendency to plagiarise both from himself and other authors. Whilst Markham's literary works were never in high repute, his agricultural works were not superseded until the mid-eighteenth century. In his own time, they met a demand for new manuals. After making sufficient capital, many Elizabethan and Jacobean merchants retired to their native villages or the countryside and needed to learn to manage their property there, and the usefulness of the manuals that had been best-sellers in the sixteenth century was passing. Ref: Senate House Library.