The way to save wealth ; shewing how a man may live plentifully for two-pence a day. Likewise how to make a hundred noble dishes of meat, without either flesh, fish, or fowl. To make bread of roots, herbs, and leafs of trees. To brew good cheap liquor, without malt or hops. To make shoes last long. To make coals last long. To save soap in washing. To save cloth in cutting out a shirt. To make coffee of horse-beans To feed cattel 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. To make spring-potage. To cure all sorts of cattle for 12 d. charge. To improve land, order and cure all deseases in singing birds. To kill vermin. To brew pale ales. To make wines, and all sorts of liquor, and an easy way to fine, and order them. With divers other curious matters, adorn'd with cuts.
The way to save wealth ; shewing how a man may live plentifully for two-pence a day. Likewise how to make a hundred noble dishes of meat, without either flesh, fish, or fowl. To make bread of roots, herbs, and leafs of trees. To brew good cheap liquor, without malt or hops. To make shoes last long. To make coals last long. To save soap in washing. To save cloth in cutting out a shirt. To make coffee of horse-beans To feed cattel 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. To make spring-potage. To cure all sorts of cattle for 12 d. charge. To improve land, order and cure all deseases in singing birds. To kill vermin. To brew pale ales. To make wines, and all sorts of liquor, and an easy way to fine, and order them. With divers other curious matters, adorn'd with cuts.
Created/published
London : Printed, and are to be sold by G. Conyers at the Ring in Little Britain, [1695?]
Attributed to Thomas Tryon. Publication date conjectured by Wing. At foot of title: Price 1s. 6d. Signatures: A⁶(-A1,+pi²) B-F⁶ (pi1 = frontispiece, pi2 = title page).
ESTC staff note
In both DFo and CSmH copies the first 2 leaves (pi²) are on very different paper than the balance of the text. Is this a case of original leaf A1 being cancelled by pi² in some copies, or do all copies exhibit this characteristic? Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2019. First Chefs. Opening: Title page.
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), W1172 English short title catalogue (ESTC), R204135
Bd. w.: The compleat husbandman and gentleman's recreation:...London, [1707], and three other works. MS. numbered "No 84" on front free end-paper. C4 torn, affecting text. Trimmed, affecting text at tail. Some leaves foxed or wormed, affecting text. Provenance: inscription on front free end-paper: "James Burdge [June ?] 1717"
