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The gentleman's stable directory, or, modern system of farriery : comprehending the present entire improved mode of practice : containing all the most valuable prescriptions and approved remedies, accurately proportioned and properly adapted to every known disease to which the horse is incident. Interspersed with occasional remarks upon the dangerous and almost obsolete practice of Gibson, Bracken, and others : including directions for feeding, bleeding, purging, and getting condition for the chase : inscribed to Sir John Lade, Bart. /

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Niall Kenny description: The early editions of this work are oddly very scarce. Pagination error: 226 given as '229'. Dedication signed "Wokingham, Nov. 1, 1787".

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taplin, William, 1740?-1807 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Printed for G. Kearsley, at Johnson's Head, no. 46, in Fleet Street, MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Subjects:
Horses > Diseases > Early works to 1800.
Veterinary medicine > Early works to 1800.
Horse Diseases > therapy.
Horses.
Lameness, Animal > therapy.
Description
Summary:Niall Kenny description: The early editions of this work are oddly very scarce. Pagination error: 226 given as '229'. Dedication signed "Wokingham, Nov. 1, 1787".
Item Description:Includes index (first 8 unnumbered pages at end).
Publisher's advertisement final 4 unnumbered pages.
Signatures: A-2A⁸.
Misnumbering: 229 for 226.
Physical Description:xvi, 356 pages, 12 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm