The parfait mareschal, or compleat farrier. : Which teacheth, I. To know the shapes and goodness, as well as faults and imperfections of horses. II. The signs and causes of their diseases, the means to prevent them, their cure, and the good and bad use of purging and bleeding. III. The way to order and preserve them, when upon travel, to feed, and to dress them. IV. The art of shoeing, according to a new design of shoes, which will recover bad feet, and preserve the good. Together with a treatise, how to raise and bring up a true and beautiful race of horses; as also instructions, whereby to fit all kinds of horses with proper bits, whereof the chief draughts are represented in copper-plates. /

Niall Kenny description: The exceptionally scarce 1st edition, 1st issue. This first part was issued before the London edition, and never had a separate 2nd part; that was only ever added for the London printing. I have never seen a complete copy of this for sale before.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Solleysel, Jacques de, 1617-1680
Other Authors: Hope, William, Sir
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Printed by George Mosman, MDCXCVI [1696]
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Description
Summary:Niall Kenny description: The exceptionally scarce 1st edition, 1st issue. This first part was issued before the London edition, and never had a separate 2nd part; that was only ever added for the London printing. I have never seen a complete copy of this for sale before.
Item Description:Sidenotes.
Signatures: 9*² A-3Z² pi² A-Y²
No more appears to have been published in this edition; a London edition, complete in 2 volumes, appeared in the same year. Cf. Hazlitt III, 63.
Part 1 only has general title page; part 1 has added illustrated title-page, engraved. The supplement has special title-page: A supplement of horsemanship, to the first part of The parfait mareschal. Or A most compendious and excellent treatise of riding ... The whole collected and methodized, by Sir William Hope ... Printed at Edinburgh.
Physical Description:34 unnumbered pages, 261 pages, 22 unnumbered pages, 86 pages, 1 unnumbered page : 5 folded leaves of plates ; 31 cm