The jockey's guide and farrier's companion : containing the best directions for breeding, buying, and preservation of horses. Together with the true signs, symptoms, causes, and methods of curing all distempers incident to that useful creacher; (never published before) with short, and safe instructions for the well ordering of both, for hunting, and raceing /
Niall Kenny description: My copy has 2 leaves of adverts not found in the other known copy; despite the ESTC listing the frontispiece is a true plate rather than a letterpress leaf. The engraved frontispiece is titled and signed: "The iockeys guid, and farriers companion. Printed for Henry Rhod...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for Henry Rhodes, next door to the Swan Tavern, newr Bride-Lane, in Fleet-street,
1687.
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| Summary: | Niall Kenny description: My copy has 2 leaves of adverts not found in the other known copy; despite the ESTC listing the frontispiece is a true plate rather than a letterpress leaf. The engraved frontispiece is titled and signed: "The iockeys guid, and farriers companion. Printed for Henry Rhodes.". Above the imprint on the title page is "Licensed, December the 4th. 1686. Rob. Midgley." RVC copy has the advert leaves but lacks the folding plate. |
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| Item Description: | Publisher's advertisements final 4 unnumbered pages. Includes index. Folded plate "Distempers of horses" is a different version of the picture of a horse with lines going out from body parts to diseases; the disease names are not in a border but radiating out with the lines in an oval surrounding the horse. Sir Frederick Smith described this book as "largely a plagiarism of previously published works of the Markham type" on page 344, volume 1 of "The early history of veterinary literature and its British development." |
| Physical Description: | 10 unnumbered pages, 216 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (one folded) : frontispiece, illustrations ; 15 cm. |