Gervase Markham - Works

Works

He was a voluminous writer on many subjects, but he repeated himself considerably in his works, sometimes reprinting the same books under other titles. His booksellers procured a declaration from him in 1617 that he would produce no more on certain topics. Markham's writings include:

• 1593: A Discourse of Horsemanship was followed by other popular treatises on horsemanship and farriery;
• 1595: The most Honorable Tragedy of Sir Richard Grinvile (1595), reprinted (1871) by Professor E. Arber, a prolix and euphuistic poem in eight-lined stanzas on Sir Richard Grenville;
• 1595: The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse, dedicated to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip Sidney;
• 1597: Devoreux, Virtue's Tears;
• 1600: The Teares of the Beloved and Mary Magdalene's Tears (1601), long and rather commonplace poems on the Passion and Resurrection of Christ, both reprinted by Dr. A. B. Grosart in the Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies Library (1871);
• 1602: A translation of the satires of Lodovico Ariosto;
• 1607: Cavelarice, or The English horseman, featuring secrets of William Bankes, master of the performing horse Marocco;
• 1607: The English Arcadia, part 1. A sequel to Sidney's Arcadia. Part 2 appeared in 1613;
• 1608: The Dumb Knight, a comedy, with Lewis Machin;
• 1622: Herod and Antipater, a Tragedy, written in conjunction with William Sampson;
• 1624: Honor in his Perfection, in praise of the earls of Oxford, Southampton and Essex;
• 1625: Soldier's Accidence turns his military experiences to account;
• 1634: The Art of Archerie, Shewing how it is most necessary in these times for this Kingdom, both in Peace and War, and how it may be done without Charge to the Country, Trouble to the People, or any Hindrance to Necessary Occasions. Also, of the Discipline, the Postures, and whatsoever else is necessary for the attaining to the Art (London, Ben Fisher, at the Signe of the Talbot without Alders Gate, 1634)

• He edited Juliana Berners's Book of Saint Albans under the title of The Gentleman's Academy (1595), and produced numerous books on husbandry, many of which are catalogued in Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual (Bohn's ed., 1857–1864).