[ANON.]
The Pocket Farrier: A Treatise on the veterinary Art, containing the Materia Medica and Pharmacopoeia, by a practical Farrier.
London, Richardson & Son, and Dublin and Derby, [1844].
16mo, pp. [2], [7]-324, with steel-engraved title (dated 1844) and frontispiece; titles and frontispiece lightly foxed, very occasional spots; a very good copy in contemporary blind-blocked cloth, spine lettered directly in gilt, yellow endpapers; light sunning, slight bubbling, dust-staining; front free endpaper inscribed ‘John Evans’ Book, 1855'.
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The Pocket Farrier: A Treatise on the veterinary Art, containing the Materia Medica and Pharmacopoeia, by a practical Farrier.
Very scarce manual on farriery. ‘This anonymous work consists of a digest of other authors and quotes liberally – with acknowledgements – from Clater, Richard Lawrence, White, Gibson, Feron, Blaine, Moorcroft, Wilkinson, Coleman, Goodwin, Clark, and The Veterinary College. The section Veterinary materia medica is abridged from the corresponding text by James White.’ (Dingley).
Copac finds only one copy in the UK, at the British Library. Another edition is recorded by Dingley, undated and published by Allman, and similarly held by only one institution. Only one copy, likely the other edition, could be traced at auction.
Cf. Dingley 505; not in Mellon.
