nebroadwe | Curiosa: Why don't you just call it "Aspiration"? (Reply)

There are titles and then there are titles: the inspired kind that serve at once as advertisement and encapsulation ... and the merely workmanlike that leave the reader to bedevil librarians and bookstore clerks with requests for a book by "that author, you know, the one with the blue cover." And then there are seventeenth-century titles such as this one:

Cheap and Good,
HVSBANDRY
For the well-Ordering of all
Beasts, and Fowles, and for the
generall Cure of their Diseases.

Contayning the Natures, Breeding, Choise, Vse, Feeding,
and Curing of the disease of all manner of Cattell, as Horse,
Oxe, Cow, Sheepe, Goates, Swine, and tame-Conies.

Shewing further, the whole Art of Riding great-Horses, with the
breaking and ordering of them : and the dieting of the Running,
Hunting, and Ambling horse, and the manner how
to vse them in their trauaile.

Also, approued Rules, for the Cramming and Fatting of all sorts of
Poultry and Fowles, both tame and wilde, &c. And diuers good and
well-approued Medicines for the cure of all the diseases
in Hawkes, of what kinde soeuer.

Together with the Vse and Profit of Bees: the making of Fish-ponds,
and the taking of all sorts of Fish.

Gathered together for the generall good and profit of this whole
Realme, by exact and assured experience from English practices,
both certaine, easie, and cheape : differing from all former and
forraine experiments, which eyther agreed not with
our Clime, or were too hard to come by,
or ouer-costly, and to little purpose : all
which herein are auoyded.

I regret that I do not have the technical savvy to reproduce all the typographical variety that helps keep each item of information presented here in its proper place. You'll just have to find a copy and look at it yourself ...