The compleat jockey:, or, The most exact rules and methods to be observ'd in training up of race-horses: shewing how to prepare them in any heats or courses; with the manner of their keepings, instructions for their dressing and looking to, their scourings, diets, matches and racings; the like not published to the world before. To which is added, the most experienced way for buying horses; and instructions to avoid being cheated upon the like occasion; with a relation of the cheats and tricks the jockeys and horse-coursers put on the unexpert buyers. / Attributed to Gervase Markham gentleman.
attributed to Gervase Markham (c.1569-1637)
Category
Books
Date
1933
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124239
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, 11-93, [3] p. ; 8vo. Copy no. 54. Pencil price on front free endpaper: "21/- net". Binding: Twentieth-century quarter publisher's brown morocco, marbled paper over boards; black stamped centrepiece on upper board: horse and rider; gilt lettered spine. Some uncut leaves.
Makers and roles
attributed to Gervase Markham (c.1569-1637), author