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
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3042868
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2],xlv,[1],326,323-324;[2],xvi,300,[4]p., frontis., 6 plates (some folded) . port.. . fol.. Imperfect: lacking title page to first part. Seven pressed petals inserted at c2r; subsequent pages stained in consequence. Provenance: Inscribed: "G Crooke[?]". Binding: Eighteenth-century blind panelled calf; six raised bands; spine-label missing.
Makers and roles
Jacques Labessie de Solleysel (1617-1680) Sir William Hope