The gentleman's accomplish'd jockey : with the compleat horseman, and approved farrier. Containing, I. The excellent constitution and temper of horses, mares and colts; the manner of breeding them, with their proper feed, and management for all exercises. II. The compleat jockey's method for dieting, physicking, and ordering, the race horse, so as to be fit for any match: certain rules for buying good horses, and preventing impositions and cheats. III. Various ways for making of stars, blazes, and marks in the fore-head, or any part of the horse's body, with other curiosities, &c. IV. The farrier's master-piece, in knowing the several causes and cures of all distempers, sores, wounds, bruises, and hurts, incident to horses; with an excellent praxis, whereby any one may easily know how and when to physick, bleed, purge, rowel, dock, shoe, and shape their horses, being some peculiar observations not before made publick /

Niall Kenny description: [1] title, [2] blank, [3]-[4] preface, 1-156 text, G7r-G11r contents, G11v-G12r publisher's adverts, G12v woodcut. The woodcut is a very primitive image of a horse and dog. In my copy the woodcut was bound as a frontispiece rather than at the end. Pagination errors: p 1...

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