Way to Get Wealth: Containing sixe Principall Vocations, for Callings, in which every good Husband or hu-wife, may lawfully imploy themselves

Full Description: MARKHAM, Gervase. A Way to Get Wealth. Containing sixe Principall Vocations, for Callings, in which every good Husband or hu-wife, may lawfully imploy themselves. London: William Wilson, 1660. Tenth edition. Six parts in one quarto volume (7 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches; 185 x 138 mm). [12], 146, [10, table]; [4], 92, [4, table]; [8], 188; [4], 20; [6], 126, [4, table]; [6], 56; [2], 69-112 pp. Books with woodcut initials, head-pieces and decorations, illustrations and diagrams in the text. With separate title-pages, each dated 1660 for each part. Full contemporary calf. boards ruled in blind. Black morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Top edge dyed brown, others speckled red. Title is hand-lettered in ink on fore-edge. Some minor repairs to joints and hinges. With newer endpapers. The final leaf with a tear at outer, lower corner, just touching the catchword. Previous owner's armorial bookplate on blank verso of general title-page. Overall a very good copy. Provenance: Bookplate of Thomas Hamilton (1721-1794), 7th Earl of Haddington, engraved armorial bookplate on verso of title; thence by descent to the Earls of Haddington. "A popular handbook such as A Way to get Wealth, used in farmhouse, field and kitchen must have received a great deal of ill-usage and it is not surprising that so few copies of the various editions have survived". (Poynter pp.153-4). Wing M678. ESTC R32052 HBS 68796. $2,500. …