The compleat horseman and expert ferrier. : In two bookes. The first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choyce, nature, riding and dyeting ... The second, directing the most exact and approved manner how to know and cure all maladies and diseases in horses ... dedicated to his most Excellent Majestie, by Thomas de Gray Esquire.
1639
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The compleat horseman and expert ferrier. : In two bookes. The first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choyce, nature, riding and dyeting ... The second, directing the most exact and approved manner how to know and cure all maladies and diseases in horses ... dedicated to his most Excellent Majestie, by Thomas de Gray Esquire.
Created/published
London : Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by Nicholas Vavasour, at his shop in the inner Temple neere the church doore, 1639.
Description
[32], 356, [8] p. : ill., port. ; (fol.)
Note
"The portrait of Charles I on horseback, engr. by W. Marshall, was prob. made for the present item though it also appears the same year w. 25963"--STC. It has a conjugate leaf of explanation.
Running title reads: The expert ferrier.
Imprimatur at foot of leaf 2Z2v: Imprimatur, Thomas VVykes.
The last leaf is blank.
One of three imprint variants of the same edition.
Signatures: [a]⁴ b-d⁴ B-2Y⁴ 2Z² chi⁴.
Running title reads: The expert ferrier.
Imprimatur at foot of leaf 2Z2v: Imprimatur, Thomas VVykes.
The last leaf is blank.
One of three imprint variants of the same edition.
Signatures: [a]⁴ b-d⁴ B-2Y⁴ 2Z² chi⁴.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 12206
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S106705
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S106705
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Imprimaturs.
Imprimaturs.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
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STC 12206
Folger-specific note
135943. Imperfect: lacking explanation of port. leaf. Leaves V2 and V3 repaired, slightly affecting text. Calf binding. Provenance: inscriptions on C4r: "Elizabeth Colberne" and on recto of port.: "Lawe: [Lawrence?] Roby"