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containing the sixe Principall Vocations, or Callings, in which every good Husband or House-wife, may lawfully imploy themselves, 6 parts in 1, fifth edition, with general title and separate title to each part, final part with woodcut title-vignette and woodcut printer's device at end, with all blank leaves (at end of first part, beginning & end second part, beginning third part and end of final part), woodcut illustrations, old ink signature of W.Brown on main title and another crossed out, a little soiled, cropped with slight loss to imprint on main title and a few signatures, rust-hole to C7 of fifth part with loss of a couple of letters, old invoice loosely inserted, bookplate of R.C.A.Prior, contemporary panelled sheep, rubbed, rebacked, [STC 17396; Thacher p.341; W&S p.146], small 4to, by Nicholas Oakes for John Harrison, [1631].

***Comprising: Cheape and Good Husbandry; Country Contentments; The English Hous-Wife; The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent; Markhams Farewell to Husbandry; A New Orchard, and Garden. The first part includes a chapter on fishing and fishponds with a woodcut of a fishpond; the seond part includes several chapters on angling..