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Lavfaon, William (cent.) 
Nearly all the eds. from 1623 onwards con¬ 
tain not only ”The country housewifes garden”, 
which was published with the original ed. of 
1618, but also the ”Art of propagating plants” 
by Simon Harward, and the ”Husbandman*s fruit¬ 
ful orchard”, of which the author is unknown. 
Furthermore, a majority of the eds. of Law- 
son, beginning with the 2d, 1623, were published 
with certain agricultural books of Gervase Mark¬ 
ham, the contents of which may be almost identi¬ 
cal, but which are variously cited. In the fol¬ 
lowing list, the 1623 ed. of Lawson is credited 
to Itorkham^s ”Farwell to husbandry”, and those 
of 1631, 1638, 1660 and 1683 to ”A way to get 
wealth”, while according to other records some 
of the same eds. of Lawson appeared with Mark¬ 
ham’s ”Cheape and good husbandry”. The fact is 
that ”A way to get wealth” is a collective title 
covering both ”Cheape and good husbandry” and 
"Farewell to husbandry”, which may not always 
be bound in the same order, or in some copies 
the collective title may be wanting. Inasmuch 
as eds. of different dates of both authors were 
issued together, it cannot be assumed that the 
edition nimiber and imprint of Markham’s titles 
correspond to those of Lawson in the same issue. 
The edition numbers, moreover, of Lawson’s 
works, do not correspond to the order of their 
issue, and since most of them were published 
with Markham’s works, probably do not repre¬ 
sent actual editions, but mere reissues. As 
it would be impossible to determine what dif¬ 
ferences may exist between the respective eds. 
without careful comparison of their texts, it 
is convenient to enter them in chronological 
order, except the modem reprints of 1858 and 
1927, which were specifically made from the 
3d ed. and are entered after it. 
The data on William Lawson and his works 
have been mainly collected and to a consider¬ 
able extent arranged by Janice Stewart Brown; 
revised, Feb. 1935, by MFW. 
