REEVES, John.
The Art of Farriery, both in Theory and Practice, containing the Causes, Symptoms, and Cure of all Diseases incident to Horses, with anatomical Descriptions illustrated with Cuts for the better Explaining the Structure and Accounting for the various Disorders of these useful Animals, as also many Rules relating to the Choice and Management of Horses of all Kinds, and useful Directions how to avoid being imposed upon by Jockies, wherein some egregious Errors of former Writers are occasionally pointed out … to which is added a new Method of Curing a Strain in the back Sinwes and the Anatomy of a Horse’s Leg, with some Observations on Shoeing, also an Appendix, containing some necessary Observations on the late epidemical Distemper among Horses, and a Method of Cure, by an eminent Surgeon.
Salisbury, B. Collins for J. Newbery and Stanley Crowder, London, 1763.
8vo, pp. [8], 408, with frontispiece and 3 engraved plates (of which one folding); light damp-stain to sig. A, worming in lower margin very occasionally touching text, very short chips to fore-edge of pl. 3; a good copy in contemporary English sheep, borders double-filleted in gilt, spine gilt-ruled in compartments with printed paper label in one, sewn two-up on 3 cords with 2 raised bands; scuffing and damp-staining, end-caps chipped, repairs to joints.
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The Art of Farriery, both in Theory and Practice, containing the Causes, Symptoms, and Cure of all Diseases incident to Horses, with anatomical Descriptions illustrated with Cuts for the better Explaining the Structure and Accounting for the various Disorders of these useful Animals, as also many Rules relating to the Choice and Management of Horses of all Kinds, and useful Directions how to avoid being imposed upon by Jockies, wherein some egregious Errors of former Writers are occasionally pointed out … to which is added a new Method of Curing a Strain in the back Sinwes and the Anatomy of a Horse’s Leg, with some Observations on Shoeing, also an Appendix, containing some necessary Observations on the late epidemical Distemper among Horses, and a Method of Cure, by an eminent Surgeon.
Second edition, printed at Salisbury, of a treatise of a local farrier in Hampshire. ‘The author of the following sheets, having been many years in the practice of Farriery, and acquired reputation by his success in curing the various Diseases of Horses, several gentlemen in the neighbourhood solicited him to publish his method of cure; and in order to engage him in the undertaking, a physician of eminence offered to revise his copy, and prepare it for the press… Both our author and his friend have been intent on establishing such a system of Farriery as might in all respects be depended on. They have excluded therefore such conjectures as are the children of fancy; all their precepts and prescriptions being founded in practice and experience.’
ESTC T109362; Dingley 525; not in Mellon.
