The gentleman's farriery: or, a practical treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on that subjects have been consulted, and M. La Fosse's method of trepanning glandered horses is particularly considered and improved: also a new method of nicking horses is recommended, with a copper-plate and description of the machine. To which is added an appendix, treating, 1. Of particular disorders of the feet. 2. Observations on shoeing horses. With proper cuts /
Niall Kenny description: The extra plates at the end started to appear in 3rd edition (1756); some copies seem to have coloured plates (contemporary?); the collation by gathering is assumed to be 'A4, a4,' because these pages are identical to 2nd edition, and some numerical gathering marks...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | The eighth edition, revised. |
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| Summary: | Niall Kenny description: The extra plates at the end started to appear in 3rd edition (1756); some copies seem to have coloured plates (contemporary?); the collation by gathering is assumed to be 'A4, a4,' because these pages are identical to 2nd edition, and some numerical gathering marks are on a1 and a2 ('2' and '1' respectively). |
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| Item Description: | Tail-piece. Marginal notes. Signatures: A⁴ a-b⁴ c² B-2B⁸ (-2B8, 2B8) Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xxviii, 370 pages, 10 unnumbered pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates (5 folded) : frontispiece, illustrations ; 18 cm |