A practical treatise on farriery : including remarks on all diseases incident to horses, the symptoms by which they are severally known, and the most approved mode of cure /
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| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Signatures: pi⁴ A-X⁴ Frontispiece is engraved portrait of Edward Snape, dated May 1, 1791. He appears to be holding a copy of Andrew Snape's "The Anatomy of an Horse" first published in 1683. "Advertisement. The nobility and gentry are most respectfully acquainted, that on paying the sum of three guineas, they will, besides this work, become entitled to a copy of a volume on the anatomy of the horse, written by my predecessor, Mr. Andrew Snape, who was farrier to Charles the Second. The volume is now reprinting, with an entire new set of explanatory cuts; and as it was written for the express purpose of alleviating the pangs of the animal, and improving the skill of the practitioner, I have no doubt but it will be honoured with the complete approbation of my generour readers. Entered, according to Act of Parliament, at Stationers Hall." - recto of leaf following title page. Mis-folded copy: U and X are folded with the 3rd and 4th leaves before the signed leaves: U3, U4, U, U2. In the first gathering, U, this results in the last 8 pages of the index out of order. In the 2nd gathering, X, the [2] leaves of contents pages are complete, followed by the X leaf with a list ("Prices of the Medicines") of recto and verso, then the X2 leaf with errata printed on the recto only. Original mottled calf boards with gilt border; skillfully rebacked with appropriate gilt ornaments and black title block. Spine title mis-spelled "Stape's farriery." |
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| Physical Description: | 8 unnumbered pages, viii, 154 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : frontispiece; illustrations ; 27 cm. |