Methode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux par le tres-noble, haut et tres-puissant prince Guillaume marquis et comte de Newcastle vicomte de Mansfield, baron de Bolsover et Ogle; seigneur de Cavendish, Bothel et Hepvvel; pair d'Angleterrre; qui eut la charge & l'honneur d'étre gouverneur du serenissime Prince de Galles en sa jeunesse, maintenant Roy de la Grande-Bretagne; lieutenant pour le roy de la comté de Nottingham, & de la Forest de Shervvood; capitaine general en toutes les provinces outre la Riviere de Trent, & autres endroits du royaume d'angleterre; gentil-homme de la chambre du lit du roy; conseillier d'état & privé; chevalier du tres-noble Ordre de la Jartiere, &c. Oeuure, auquel on apprend à trauailler les cheuaux selon la nature, & parfaire la nature par la subtilité de l'art; traduit de l'anglois de l'auteur, par son commandement, enrichy de plusieures belles figures en taille douce.
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, KG, MP (1593-1676)
Category
Books
Date
1657 - 1658
Materials
Place of origin
Antwerp
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3082238
Summary
Bibliographic description
[32], 271, [9], 19, [5] p., 42 double leaves of plates : ill. ; fol. Former shelfmark: 34.i.9. Running number: 5514. Date of imprint on letterpress title page printed as M. DC. LVII but altered by hand with addition of an 'I' to read M. DC. LVIII, i.e. 1658. All bifolia mounted on guards. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "Ι-ιε'" [i.e. Iota-iota epsilon = Greek number 1-15]. Seventeenth- or eighteenth-century manuscript inscription in French on front fly-leaf: "...[illegible] en frances con est...[illegible]". Nineteenth-century pencil shelfmark on front fly-leaf: "(33.A.21.)". Binding: seventeenth-century full gold-tooled vellum; sewn on six supports; centre- and cornerpiece design within frame, outer border of intersecting single fillets, inner frame of narrow floral roll between fillets, foliate cornerpieces featuring putti's head with wings and stylised birds'-heads at inner corners of frame, small foliate fleur-de-lys style tool at outer corners, lozenge-shaped foliate centrepiece featuring stylised birds'-heads; fore-edge of vellum covers folded-over; gilt spine with repeated floral roll and foliate fleur-de-lys style tool; manuscript title at head of spine; gilt edges (mostly rubbed off). Vellum grubby and discoloured; spine cracked and partially missing at head and in middle; strips of vellum manuscript waste visible beneath missing parts of spine.
Makers and roles
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, KG, MP (1593-1676), author Abraham van Diepenbeeck ('s-Hertogenbosch 1596 - Antwerp 1675) , artist Pieter De Jode II (Antwerp 1606 - England c.1674), engraver (printmaker) Peeter Clouwet (1629-1670), engraver (printmaker) Lisebetten, Pieter van, engraver (printmaker) Caukercken, Cornelis van, engraver (printmaker) Vorsterman, Lucas, engraver (printmaker) Adriaen Lommelin (b.1636), engraver (printmaker) Kessel, Theodorus van, engraver (printmaker)