The way to get wealth; shewing how a man may live plentifully for two-pence a day. Likewise how to make A hundred noble dishes meat, without either flesh, fish, or fowl. To make bread of roots, herbs, and leafs of trees. To brew good and cheap liquor, without either malt or hops. To make shoe-leather last long. To make coals last longer than is usual. To save soap in washing. To save a quarter of a yard of cloth in cutting out a shirt or shift. To make coffee of horse-beans. To feed cattle well, without hay, grass, or corn. To save candles. To know any one's mind by signs; if there be twenty in company, they cannot apprehend it. To order bees aright. To settle your estate with Christian prudence. To know scripture-weights and measures. Of dreams. To cure wounds by sympathy. The way to live long and happily. To make spring-potage and gruels. Together with The worth of a penny, and divers other curious matters

People / Organizations

• George Conyers ("printed by and for", or "by/for and sold by")

Imprint

London: printed, and are to be sold by G. Conyers, at the Ring in Little Britain, [Between 1686 and 1712]

Added name

Conyers, George, -1739 or 1740, bookseller.

Publication year

1686-1712

ESTC No.

N509022

Grub Street ID

436635

Description

72 p. ; 12°.

Note

Anonymous; perhaps by Thomas Tryon (1634-1703) who wrote extremely similar titles on home husbandry which were available from same publisher

Title within a double-rule border

Title words "A hundred ... horse-beans." and "To feed ... gruels." are printed in two columns, separated by a broken vertical rule on title page

Publication date conjectured by cataloguer, based on publisher's address (v. Plomer)

Signatures: A-F]6.