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 shoeing, ... Together with the best method of breeding colts; ... By the Sieur de Solleysell, ... To which is added, a most excellent supplement of riding, collected from the best authors. ... Made English from the eighth edition of the original. By Sir William Hope, ... The whole illustrated with copper cuts curiously engrav'd.
Jacques Labessie de Solleysel (1617-1680)
Category
Books
Date
1717
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3042867
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2],xlv,[1],326,323-324;[2],xvi,300,[4]p., frontis., 6 plates (some folded) . port.. . fol.. Previous shelfmark: L.9.1. Format: 2ʻ. Identified in 1796 inventory: F 361, price 3s. 6d. Christie's, 21 June, 2004, lot 640.. Provenance: Bookplate: Chirk Castle R. E. Myddelton [i.e. Robert Edward Myddelton (1866-1949)]; crest, signed and dated: W.P.B. 1914.. Binding: Eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled calf binding; gilt roll on board edges; blind fillets and red gilt title label on spine.
Makers and roles
Jacques Labessie de Solleysel (1617-1680) Sir William Hope