[HARNESSES.]
A little Book for every Man who keeps a Horse, or Ease to Horses, and Safety to Drivers, in single and double Harness. London, Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., and Bath, R.E. Peach, 1862.
8vo, pp. 64, [2], with frontispiece and one plate, erratum slip tipped in at rear; a very good copy in publisher’s green cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt.
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A little Book for every Man who keeps a Horse, or Ease to Horses, and Safety to Drivers, in single and double Harness.
First edition (‘third thousand’) of a very rare anonymous publication, ‘written to introduce and explain my invention for improvements in apparatus for attaching horses to carriages, for which I have obtained Her Majesty’s Patent’.
Copac records only four copies in the UK (Bodleian, BL, NLS, CUL), and only one could be traced at auction.