The compleat horseman: discovering the surest marks of the beauty, goodness, faults of horses : the signs and causes of their diseases, the true method both of their preservation, and cure: with reflections on the regular and preposterous use of bleeding and purging. Also the art of shoeing, with the several kinds of shoes adapted to the various defects of bad feet, and the preservation of good. Together with the best method of breeding colts, backing them, and making their mouths /
Niall Kenny description: Plates are bound at p2, p208, p228, p258, p286, p326; pagination errors as in Mellon 41. This is a translation of the original "Parfait mareschal"; a variant copy also dated 1717 exists without the odd extra page numbers 323-324, and may also have variant spelling...
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| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition, corrected from many errors in the former edition. |
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| Summary: | Niall Kenny description: Plates are bound at p2, p208, p228, p258, p286, p326; pagination errors as in Mellon 41. This is a translation of the original "Parfait mareschal"; a variant copy also dated 1717 exists without the odd extra page numbers 323-324, and may also have variant spelling of printer (given as "Bunwick"); NLS copy collates exactly with this one; the Wellcome copy seems to have the same title page as here but lacks the extra pages; in Rothamsted there is also mention of an earlier translation of this Solleysel work by Sir William Davenant in 1673; I can find no other copy of this and not on ESTC or UC. |
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| Item Description: | Includes folded plates. Running title of volume 1: The perfect marshal; or, Compleat farrier. Running title of supplement: A treatise of horsemanship The supplement has special title page: A supplement of horsemanship to the first part of the perfect marshall: or, A most compendious and excellent treatise of riding ... The whole collected and methodiz'd by Sir Wiulliam Hope ... London: Printed in the year MDCCXVII. The supplement is included in the pagination and signatures; the second part has separate pagination and signatures. Includes index. Includes "An alphabetical catalogue of all the simples and drugs mentioned in this work" -- p. xiv - xxxi. Signatures: A⁴ b-f⁴ A-2S⁴ a-b⁴ B-2P⁴ 2Q-2R² Mis-numbering in part 1: 113 for 123, 116 for 126. Mis-numbering in part 2: 52 for 53, 152 for 150,203 for 230, 278 for 279, Plate 1: 'figure of a horse' with numbers marking parts of the body, also stable and grooming equipment -- Plate 2: bits -- Plate 3: 'branches', metal side pieces used with bits -- Plate 4: saddle, cavesson, stirrup, and 6 small illustrations of the 'perfect seat' in several positions -- Plate 5: 9 small illustrations of several dressage movements -- Plate 6: horse diseases chart with left-facing rearing horse, double row of conditions in English and French in small circles; also instruments and equipment for treating illnesses, including 'paring iron' or buttress. |
| Physical Description: | 2 unnumbered pages, xlv, 1 unnumbered page, 326, 323-324 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, xvi, 300 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 6 leaves of folding plates : illustrations, portrait ; 34 cm. |