BLAINE, Delabere Pritchett.
A domestic Treatise on the Diseases of Horses and Dogs, so conducted as to enable Persons to practice with Ease and Success on their own Animals without the Assistance of a Ferrier, including likewise the natural Management as Stabling, Feeding, Exercise, &c., together with the Outlines of a Plan for the Establishment of genuine Medicines for these Animals throughout the Kingdom.
London, Knight & Compton for Thomas Boosey, 1803.
12mo in 6s, pp. 179, [3 (publisher’s advertisments)], with lithographic frontispiece and title; title-vignette hand-coloured; a little thumbed; a very good copy in recent cloth-backed boards with paper sides, printed paper labels to spine and upper board, sewn two-up; title and frontispiece versos inscribed by William Thompson, dated 7th March 1811.
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A domestic Treatise on the Diseases of Horses and Dogs, so conducted as to enable Persons to practice with Ease and Success on their own Animals without the Assistance of a Ferrier, including likewise the natural Management as Stabling, Feeding, Exercise, &c., together with the Outlines of a Plan for the Establishment of genuine Medicines for these Animals throughout the Kingdom.
First edition of a scarce manual on equine and canine veterinary medicine. Describing himself somewhat spuriously as ‘Surgeon and Professor of Animal Medicine’, Blaine proposes his text as a means of disseminating the information taught at the newly founded Royal Veterinary College to those who could not afford to attend its courses; the majority of the remedies, however, recommend the purchase of powders, ointments, and medicines available from his publisher, Thomas Boosey.
Perhaps driven by mercantile motives, Blaine’s Treatise was quickly reprinted, the second and third editions both appearing in 1803, though all early editions are now scarce. Copac records only three copies of the first edition (Wellcome, Edinburgh, and Science Museum), and only one copy of any of the first three editions could be traced at auction in the past century.
Dingley 67; not in Mellon.
