The compleat horse-man, and expert ferrier. : In two bookes. The first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choice, nature, riding and dieting, 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 maner how a perfect stable ought to be scituated and made, not heretofore so fully described by any. The second, directing the most exact and approved maner 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-leach: the cures placed alphabetically; with hundreds of medicines never before imprinted in any authour. Published at the earnest request of sundry noble and worthy gentlemen, for the generall good and benefit of the nation. /
Niall Kenny description: As in the first edition the frontispiece plate (of Gustavus Adolphus) is collated as part of the gatherings. Numerous pagination errors (same as RVC copy) though gatherings complete, i.e. pp 267-274 repeated, pp 425-426 and 483-492 missing, p 103 given as '95', p 4...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
printed for Thomas Harper and Nicholas Fussell,
1651.
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| Edition: | The second edition, corrected, with some additions. |
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| Summary: | Niall Kenny description: As in the first edition the frontispiece plate (of Gustavus Adolphus) is collated as part of the gatherings. Numerous pagination errors (same as RVC copy) though gatherings complete, i.e. pp 267-274 repeated, pp 425-426 and 483-492 missing, p 103 given as '95', p 480 as '460', p 532 as '350'. |
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| Item Description: | "The printer to the reader," signed T.H., states that the additions promised by the author for the second edition were not received before his death, but will be included in the next edition. Frontispiece portrait is "Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden" on horseback. Signatures: a-c⁴ A-4S⁴ Head- and tail-pieces; initials. Misnumbering: 95 for 103, 460 for 480, 350 for 532. Pages 267-274 are repeated, pages 425-426 and 483-192 are missing, throwing off numbering for rest of book. There are no gaps in the text. |
| Physical Description: | 30 unnumbered pages, 631 [actually 623] pages, 13 unnumbered pages : frontispiece (portrait), illustrations ; 19 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (Wing D858). |