Farriery improv'd:. or, a compleat treatise upon the arts of farriery. Wherein is fully Explained The Nature, Structure, and Mechanism of that Noble and Useful Creature, A Horse, The Diseases and Accidents to which he is incident, with the Method of Cure. Delivered in as clear and intelligible a Manner as the Subject will admit. The Use and Abuse of this Science discovered; whereby any Gentleman may be able to judge whether he is imposed upon or not by Ignorant Grooms, and other Pretenders to this Art. Together with many necessary and useful observations and remarks concerning the choice and management of horses. Likewise A farther Account of Drugs and Compound Medicines used in Farriery; with Remarks, discovering whether Genuine or Adulterated, and their several Prices, in alphabetical Order, at the End of the Work. Vol.II. By Henry Bracken, M. D. Author of the Notes on Burdon.
Henry Bracken (1697-1764)
Category
Books
Date
1743
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3007461
Summary
Bibliographic description
The third edition, with large additions.. xvi,298,[22]p. ;. 12mo. Imperfect: v.2 only. Provenance: inscription on front free endpaper: Davenport Talbot [i.e. William Davenport Talbot (1764-1800)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; double gilt fillets to form a boarder; spine with five raised bands, gilt fillets, and volume number gilt lettered direct; red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Henry Bracken (1697-1764)