The compleat horseman and expert ferrier. : in two bookes : the first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choyce, nature, riding and dyeting, as well for running as hunting, and how the rider ought to behave himselfe in the breaking and riding of colts, as also teaching the groome and keeper his true office, touching the horses and colts committed to his charge, and prescribing the best manner how a perfect stable ought to be scituated and made, not hitherto so fully described by any. The second, directing the most exact and approved manner how to know and cure all maladies and diseases in horses, a worke containing the secrets and best skill belonging either to ferrier or horse-leech, the cures placed alphabetically, with many hundreds of medicines never before imprinted in any author. Published at the earnest request of sundry noble and worthy gentlemen, for the generall good and benefit of the whole kingdome, and dedicated to his most Excellent Majestie /
Niall Kenny description: There are 3 variants of the first edition recorded in the ESTC, but in fact there are 4. These are identical in pagination and collation but are, in order of precedence: 1) London, Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by Nicholas Vavasour, at his shop in the inner Te...
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| Summary: | Niall Kenny description: There are 3 variants of the first edition recorded in the ESTC, but in fact there are 4. These are identical in pagination and collation but are, in order of precedence: 1) London, Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by Nicholas Vavasour, at his shop in the inner Temple neere the church doore, 1639; 2) As above but Vavasour spelled 'Vavasor' 3) London, Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by Lawrence Chapman, at his shop at Chancery lane end next Holborne, 1639. 4) London, Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by Nicholas Fussell, at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the great north doore, at the signe of the white Lyon and Ball, 1639. The order is arrived at with subtle variations between the issues, i.e. issue 4 has extra text in the margin of p. 36, which is not present in the other issues, and it is therefore assumed to be the last variant (it is worth noting Nicholas Fussell also produced the 2nd edition in 1651); the bottom right-hand corner of the ornamental border of the title page is identical in all issues except issue 1, where the left-hand end of the bottom ornamentation dips down; a break in a rule line immediately below the text of page d3v is larger in issues 3 and 4 than that in 1 and 2. Many copies seem to lack the endpapers (e.g. Mellon 23), and the plate. The absence of the plate might be explained by the proximity of publication to the Civil War, where their removal from copies might have been viewed as prudent. Errors in pagination the same in all variants, i.e. p 44-45 given as '46-47' and p 169 given as '168'. The frontispiece plate is usually collated as a printed leaf (e.g. Mellon 23 and ESTC). |
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| Item Description: | Signatures: pi² b-d⁴ B-2Z⁴ 2pi⁶ Printer's device on title page, initials, head-pieces, side-notes. Last leaf is blank. Includes index. TMV copy binding includes parchment used as spine backing exposed inside front board. Mis-numbering: 46-47 for 44-45, |
| Physical Description: | 32 unnumbered pages, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portrait ; 28 cm |