The Compleat Horseman and Expert Ferrier, in Two Bookes.
London: Thomas Harper for Nicholas Fussell, 1639.
Price: $5,000.00
About the item
FIRST EDITION, one of three parallel issues of the edition, distinguished by the imprint. Frontispiece portrait of King Charles on horseback by William Marshall. [30], 356, [5, index] pp. Thomas Wykes, Imprimatur at foot of p. 356 (leaf 2Z2). Bound without last blank. 1 vols. Folio. Contemporary calf tooled in blind. Rebacked with new spine, new endpapers preserving earlier binder’s blanks. Good. Frontispiece trimmed and backed, numerous early paper repairs to preliminaries concealing childish ink doodles or remargining pages, three preliminary leaves and last leaf of index backed. ESTC S106707 (7 locations); Huth, p.19; Mellon/Podeschi 23; STC 12206a.
Item #369193
One of the foundational texts of English horsemanship, published here in 1639 and repeatedly in the seventeenth century.
Catgorically rare: for the three variant imprints, ESTC records 18 locations; the National Sporting Library adds the Daniels & Huth-Lonsdale-Arundel copies (both Harper for Lawrence Chapman).
