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091 $a58918/B (shelfmark)
100 1 $aDe Grey, Thomas.$0n 85143991.
245 14 $aThe compleat horse-man, and expert ferrier :$bIn two bookes ... /$cby Thomas de Grey.
250 $aThe second edition corrected /$bwith some additions.
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted for Thomas Harper and Nicholas Fussell,$c1651.
300 $a30 unnumbered pages, 631, that is, 629 pages, 13 unnumbered pages :$billustrations, portrait (engraving, woodcuts) ;$c19 cm (4to)
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent.
337 $acomputer$bc$2rdamedia.
338 $aonline resource$bcr$2rdacarrier.
500 $aRemainder of t.p. transcription (following title proper): In two bookes. The first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choice, nature, riding and dieting, as well for running as hunting, and how the rider ought to behave himselfe in the breaking and riding of colts; as also teaching the groome and keeper his true office, touching the horses and colts committed to his charge; and prescribing the best maner how a perfect stable ought to be scituated and made, not heretofore so fully described by any. The second, directing the most exact and approved maner how to know and cure all maladies and diseases in horses: a worke containing the secrets and best skill belonging either to ferrier or horse-leach: the cures placed alphabetically; with hundreds of medicines never before imprinted in any authour. Published at the earnest request of sundry noble and worthy gentlemen, for the generall good and benefit of the nation.
500 $a"The printer to the reader," signed T. H., states that the additions promised by the author for the second edition were not received before the author's death, but will be included in the next edition.
500 $aWoodcut initials and headpieces. Woodcut ill., p. 313.
500 $aOn the author and this work, see Smith: The early history of veterinary literature (1976), v. 1, p. 299-311.
500 $aA table of the contents [i.e. alphabetical index], final [12] unnumbered pages.
500 $aErrors in pagination: p. 267-274 repeated.--p. 483-492 missed.--p. 103 misnumbered 95.--p. 480 misnumbered 460.
510 0 $aWing D858.
510 4 $aESTC$cR31361.
510 4 $aWing (2nd ed., 1994),$cD858.
591 00 $zCopy 1$rSupplier/Donor: Hall's Bookshop$eNote: Sig. a1 (engraving of Gustavus Adolphus) wanting. Signature on t.p.: R.M. Massey F.R.S. 1714 (Richard Middleton Massey, 1678-1743). MS note in same (?) hand on final blank leaf. Bookplate of Eric C. Wetherill, dated 1965$9X177652.
650 2 $aHorses.$0D006736.
650 2 $aHorse Diseases.$0D006734.
650 2 $aVeterinary Medicine.$0D014730.
650 7 $aHorses$xDiseases.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00960626.
650 7 $aHorses.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00960603.
650 7 $aVeterinary medicine.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01165977.
655 0 $aElectronic books.
752 $aEngland$dLondon.
776 1 $iPrint version:$tThe compleat horse-man, and expert ferrier$w(OCoLC)13602770$w(UkLW)b10043196.
907 $a.b30320665