How to buy a horse; : containing instructions for the choice or rejection of a horse from his shape, appearance, action, soundness, or defects; an exposition of the tricks frequently practised in the sale of unsound horses, and practical directions for the improvement and maintenance of condition by feeding, stable management, exercise, etc. To which are added observations on the first treatment of some injuries and diseases to which the horse is subject; the whole illustrated by woodcuts showing the situation and nature of several defects and diseases commonly found in unsound horses.
Niall Kenny description: Oddly not found in many libraries, and not in Huth. The NLS copy has an additional 24 pp of publisher's adverts but with a different printer's imprint (i.e. “Wilson and Ogilvy, Printers, 57, Skinner Street, London"). Printer's imprint: "Marchant, Pr...
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