The gentleman's pocket-farrier : shewing how to use your horse on a journey; and what remedies are proper for common accidents, that may befal him on the road. With a copper-plate, shewing the age of a horse by his teeth. The remedies this little tract prescribes, are simple and easily obtained; and never fail of a cure, where the disorder is curable; and no man who values his horse, should travel without it.
Niall Kenny description: Almost identical to ESTC T111980, which seems to be a later printing. The plate within the text is the ubiquitous tooth plate that was used as a frontispiece in numerous later editions and in the plagiarised "Taplin improved" books. The current book differs from th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | The fourth edition. |
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| Summary: | Niall Kenny description: Almost identical to ESTC T111980, which seems to be a later printing. The plate within the text is the ubiquitous tooth plate that was used as a frontispiece in numerous later editions and in the plagiarised "Taplin improved" books. The current book differs from the other plagiarised versions of Burdon in having an additional frontispiece (of a blacksmith medicating a horse). This seems only to be found in the versions printed by Bell (see below also); this printing also claims to be the 4th edition, which is spurious; interestingly this is the only version of any printing I have seen where the word 'befal' on the title page is spelt 'befall'; even more oddly it reverted to 'befal' in later editions (see below). Has an advert for the 3rd edition of "Ten minutes advice to every gentleman going to purchase a horse ...", thus giving us a clue to its date. |
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| Item Description: | Publisher's advertisements final [6] pages. "Price one shilling and six-pence ." title page. Signatures: A-D⁶ Anonymous, pirated edition of William Burdon's Gentleman's pocket-farrier; differs from other versions by the addition of a frontispiece: "Blacksmiths murdering a poor horse, under a notion of curing him." |
| Physical Description: | iv, [5]-41 pages, [6] pages, [2] leaves of plates : frontispiece, illustrations ; 12 cm |