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
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3042869
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], xlv, [1], 326, 323-324; [2], xvi, 300, [4] p., [7] leaves of plates (6 folded) : ill., port. ; fol. With two leaves bound following the title page of pt. 2, containing the preface of, probably, "The tryal of John Hambden [sic], Esq; ... in the great case of ship-money, ...", London, 1719 (ESTC t139635 or t139637). Provenance: manuscript inscriptions: "John Stapels Henry Wymond" (in margins of pt. 2, p. 201) and "Hom. May" (pt. 2, p. 257). Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; double blind fillet border; double blind fillet and roll pattern panel, with blind cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges. Rebacked. Gilt title and place/date on spine.
Makers and roles
Jacques Labessie de Solleysel (1617-1680) Sir William Hope