STEWART, John; A. B. ALLEN, editor.
Stable Economy: A Treatise on the Management of Horses, in Relation to Stabling, Grooming, Feeding, Watering, and Working … from the third English Edition, with Notes and Additions, adapting it to American Food and Climate.
New York, D. Appleton & Co., and Philadelphia, George S. Appleton, 1845.
8vo, pp. 378, [6], 24; with woodcut illustrations in text; light foxing (mostly marginal); a very good copy in contemporary sheep, spine gilt ruled in compartments with gilt black morocco lettering-piece in one, speckled edges, sewn on 2 sunken cords; rubbed, corners a little bumped, small chip to head-cap; contemporary inscriptions to endpapers.
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Stable Economy: A Treatise on the Management of Horses, in Relation to Stabling, Grooming, Feeding, Watering, and Working … from the third English Edition, with Notes and Additions, adapting it to American Food and Climate.
First American edition of Stewart’s treatise. ‘It may be thought, perhaps, by some, presumptuous on the part of any American, to undertake the editing with a view of improvement, of a work of the standard reputation of Stewart’s Stable Economy. But it must be recollected that the climate and much of the food, and, consequently, the general management of the horse in Great Britain, are so different from what they necessarily must be in North America, that great injury is often done to this noble animal by following British instructions too closely in his rearing, and above all, in his stable management.’
Not in Dingley; cf. Mellon 160 (first London edition).
