Markhams maister-peece : contayning all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech, touching the curing of all diseases in horses : drawne with great paine, and most approved experience, from the publick practise of all the forraigne horse-marshals in Christendome ; and from the private practise of all the best farriers of this kingdome ; being divided into two bookes ; the first contayning all cures physicall : the second all belonging to chyrurgery ; with an addition of 160. principall chapters, and 370. most excellent medicines, never written of, nor mentioned in any author whatsoever ; together with the true nature, vse, and quality of every simple spoken of through the whole worke /
Niall Kenny description: The other illustrations are four full-page woodcuts, which are included in pagination. Also the 2nd book has a separate title page. Collates as Poynter 20.6, (i.e. the engraved title page has a date of 1644), except some pagination differences: i.e. p 93 is correctly paginat...
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| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Now the sixt time newly imprinted, corrected, and augmented, with above thirty new chapters, and above forty new mcdicines [as printed] that are most certaine and approved ; and heretofore never published, which you shall finde noted thus [pointing hand] ; all which never was before made knowne, but concealed in the authors breast for his owne credit. |
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| Summary: | Niall Kenny description: The other illustrations are four full-page woodcuts, which are included in pagination. Also the 2nd book has a separate title page. Collates as Poynter 20.6, (i.e. the engraved title page has a date of 1644), except some pagination differences: i.e. p 93 is correctly paginated, p 389 given as '382', 399 as '369', 464 as '446', 561 as '560'. This copy collates exactly as the HL copy on EEBO, except a pagination difference (p 93 paginated as '9') |
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| Item Description: | The author statement appears on the title page after the edition statement. With an additional illustrated title page for the "sixth impression," engraved, with title "Markhams maister:peece," dated 1644, and signed "Ren. Elstrak sculpsit." The first leaf bears "The minde or meaning of the frontispeece" on verso; the last leaf is blank. Cf. Poynter. "The second booke: containing all cures chyrurgicallm or such infirmities as being onyly outward, crave the use of chirurgery, and are called in horse-leach-craft, horses sorrances. Newly imprinted, corrected, and enlarged with many notable additions, and most certain approved medicines, never revealed before this sixt impression. Written by Gervase Markham Gent. Imprinted at London by iohn Okes, dwelling in the Well yard in little St. Bartholmewes neer the Hospitall Gate, 1643." - title page for Book 2; pagination and register are continuous. A reprint of the 1636 edition, with a postscript added (final pages [2-9]). Head- and tail-pieces; initials. Signatures: A-2P⁸ 2Q⁴ 2R⁸ (sig. 2R8 blank). Pagination errors: 75 for 94, 79 for 95, 125-126 for 126-127, 285 for 275, 382 for 389, 369 for 399, 446 for 464, 569 for 469, 474-475 for 470-471, 572-573 for 472-473, 478-479 for 474-475, 576 for 476, 558-589 for 538-539, 542 for 544, 560 for 561. Folding plate of engraving of left-facing horse, with lines connecting the part of the horse to the diseases with page numbers that form a border. 35 x 26 cm. Intact, modern mend with Japan paper.. Large woodcut of circulatory system (facing page 238) and woodcut of farrier's instruments (page 591) not trimmed but folded. |
| Physical Description: | 16 unnumbered pages, 591 pages, 22 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19 cm |