The farriers new guide : containing first, the anatomy of a horse, being an exact and compendious description of all his parts, with their actions and uses, illustrated with figures curiously engrav'd on copper-plates; secondly, an account of all the diseases incident to horses, with their signs, causes, and method of cure, wherein many defects in the farriers practice are now carefully supply'd, their errors expos'd and amended, and the art greatly improved and advanced, according to the latest discoveries : the whole interspers'd with many curious and useful observations concerning feeding and exercise, &c. / by W. Gibson.
- Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Osborn, and T. Longman ..., 1729.
- Format/Description:
- Book
16 unnumbered pages, 109 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo) - Edition:
- The sixth edition corrected.
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p33x8412b - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Horses -- Anatomy.
Horses -- Diseases. - Notes:
- Signatures: A-2A⁸ 2B².
Pages 42 and 196 (second count) misnumbered 14 and 166 respectively.
Title page in red and black.
Woodcuts: device; initials; head- and tail-pieces.
Second part has special t.p. and separate pagination. - Local notes:
- Fairman Rogers copy: Imperfect: covers, frontispiece, and first part detached from spine.
- Penn Provenance:
- Pearson, Leonard (bookplate) (Fairman Rogers copy)
- Penn Chronology:
- 1729
- Cited in:
- Fox, C.G. The Fairman Rogers Coll. on the horse and equitation, 322
- Contributor:
- Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- OCLC:
- 5852826