The compleat horseman: . discovering the surest marks of the beauty, goodness, faults, and imperfections of horses: the signs and causes of their diseases, ... Also the art of shooing, ... Together with the best method of breeding colts; ...
Jacques Labessie de Solleysel (1617-1680)
Category
Books
Date
1696
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 3007627
Summary
Bibliographic description
[36],261,[17];[4],86,[2];[16],300,[4]p.,[3],6 plates (some folded) . port.. . fol... Contents leaves to part 1 misbound before part 1, p. 1. Part 2 adv. leaf misbound after engr. tp. Annotated and underlined in an eighteenth-century hand. Provenance: Bookplate: Erthig (anonymous armorial) ). Binding: Sprinkled, panelled calf, blind tooling on covers, blind fillet on spine, gilt roll on board edges, red and brown sprinkled edges.
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.
Makers and roles
Jacques Labessie de Solleysel (1617-1680)