A treatise on the disorders, incident to horned cattle : comprising a description of their symptoms, and the most rational methods of cure, founded on long experience /
Niall Kenny enumeration: "[i] half title, [ii] blank, [iii] title, [iv] blank, [v] dedication, [vi] blank, [vii]-viii preface, [ix]-xii contents, 1-102 text on horned cattle, 103-108 horses, [109] half title, [110] blank, [111] title 'for extracting calves', [112] blank, [113]-131 tex...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Niall Kenny enumeration: "[i] half title, [ii] blank, [iii] title, [iv] blank, [v] dedication, [vi] blank, [vii]-viii preface, [ix]-xii contents, 1-102 text on horned cattle, 103-108 horses, [109] half title, [110] blank, [111] title 'for extracting calves', [112] blank, [113]-131 text on calves, K2v blank, [i]-xiv list of subscribers, L8r 'A caution to the practitioner, L8v blank, M1r errata, M1v blank" Niall Kenny description: "Good copy in original full calf, with red gilt label on spine, some splitting of spine; position of page number 55 (and xi and xiv of subscribers) is different from all other pages being at the inner edge; I3 signature incorrectly I2, L2 as T2; p. xiv misprinted ziv; leaf M2 is probably a blank leaf; signature on ffep "Richard Browlow, Mattersey, 1799"; 'calf' section, although continuous in pagination and signature, seems possibly to have been intended for separate publication; horse section is a slightly different type setting. This is the very rare true 1st edition (see 2nd issue in Dingley 229, which was printed later that same year); the 2nd issue lacks leaf H8, which is the section title on page 111 in my copy); not in BL or RVC." |
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| Item Description: | List of subscribers on pages [i]-ziv [i.e.xiv]. Signatures: pi⁶ B-I⁸ K² L⁸ chi² Running title pages 2-102: "A treatise on" on versos, "Horned cattle" on rectos, underlined by double-rule; pagination above line near outer margin. Added title page, [H8], (included in enumeration): "Directions, for extracting calves, &c. &c. by J. Downing. Stourbridge: Printed and sold by J. Rollason. 1797". Running title pages 114-131: "For extracting" on versos, "of calves" on rectos. Running title pages [i]-ziv: "Subscribers names". Misprintings: B3 for C3; [blank] for D3, G3 and G4; E3 for E4; I2 for I3; T2 for L2; ziv for xiv; page 55 (and xi and xiv of subscribers) on inner margin, not outer margin. First and last [2] blank leaves are laid paper; rest are wove paper. Copy 1 is 1st issue; copy 2 is 3rd issue, as it lacks the errata page of the 1st issue and the corrections have been made in the text. Copy 2 (3rd issue) has manuscript disease and agricultural recipes on verso of L8 and subsequent blank pages. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 131 pages, 1 unnumbered page, ziv [i.e. xiv] pages, 2 unnumbered leaves ; 22 cm. (octavo) |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain -- England -- Stourbridge. |