The gentleman's farriery: . or, a practical treatise, on the diseases of horses: wherein the best writers on that subject have been consulted, and M. La Fosse's method of trepanning glander'd horses is particularly consider'd and improved; also a new method of nicking horses is recommended; with a copper-plate and description of the machine. To which is added an appendix. ... By J. Bartlet, ...
John Bartlet (1716-1772)
Category
Books
Date
1759
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 3059801
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxvi,370,[8]p., [7] plates (4 folding) . 8vo.. In the Nostell copy it appears that the cancel has not been removed: sig. [b]4 is present, numbered xxiii-xxiv, followed by a conjugate leaf of contents, the recto of the first page of which is unnumbered, followed by p. xxvi, p. xxv, then p. xxvi. manuscript on front pastedown: Prce: 4s. manuscript sheet loosely inserted [either written by, or given to, Rowland Winn, later 5th Bart. (1739-1785)] detailing 'A drink for an horse's cote': This is ye receipt I promised you; & I hope, ye Grey will not be the first horse it ever fail'd on. It did not fail on mine as you very well know. & I wish it may never fail on any, that you may have accoasion to try it on.. Provenance: manuscript inscription on title page: Rowland Winn - Esqr 1762 [i.e.: Rowland Winn, 5th Bart. (1739-1785)].. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sheep; double gilt fillet to form a border; sewn onto five raised cords; spine double gilt ruled; direct lettered in manuscript at head [now very faint].
Makers and roles
John Bartlet (1716-1772) Henry Bracken (1697-1764) William Gibson (1680-1750) Étienne-Guillaume La Fosse (d.1765)