LAWSON, A.
The modern Farrier, or the Art of Preserving the Health and Curing the Diseases of Horses, Dogs, Oxen, Cows, Sheep, & Swine, comprehending a great Variety of original and approved Recipes, Instructions in Hunting, Shooting, Coursing, Racing, and Fishing, and a Summary of the Game Laws, with an enlivening Selection of the most interesting sporting Anecdotes, the whole forming an invaluable and useful Companion to all Persons concerned in the Breeding and Managing of domestic Animals … illustrated with numerous Engravings.
Newcastle upon Tyne, Mackenzie & Dent, 1822.
8vo, pp. [4], viii, [5]-616, with engraved title, frontispiece, and 7 plates; lightly toned with very occasional spots, ink visible on frontispiece and engraved title from versos; contemporary sheep, upper board initialled ‘JH’ in blind, gilt red morocco lettering-piece to spine, marbled edges; boards very lightly rubbed and bumped, rebacked in calf, hinges strengthened with mull; extensive contemporary and subsequent manuscript recipes, 20th-century ink ownership stamps of J.M. Sayer.
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The modern Farrier, or the Art of Preserving the Health and Curing the Diseases of Horses, Dogs, Oxen, Cows, Sheep, & Swine, comprehending a great Variety of original and approved Recipes, Instructions in Hunting, Shooting, Coursing, Racing, and Fishing, and a Summary of the Game Laws, with an enlivening Selection of the most interesting sporting Anecdotes, the whole forming an invaluable and useful Companion to all Persons concerned in the Breeding and Managing of domestic Animals … illustrated with numerous Engravings.
Early issue of an uncommon farriery manual, printed at Newcastle. First appearing in the early 1820s, this popular text was frequently reprinted throughout the decade, with a twenty-fifth edition recorded in 1842. All editions are now scarce, with only one copy dated 1822 recorded on Copac (at the Wellcome Library) and none recorded at auction (though an 1821 copy was sold by Sotheby’s in 1969).
The present copy is of additional interest for its manuscript veterinary recipes, written in several nineteenth-century hands.
Cf. Dingley 392 (thirteenth edition, 1829); not in Mellon.
