The true method of dieting horses : containing many curious and useful observations concerning their marks, colour and external shape, their temper and instinct, and how they are to be govern'd so as to prevent accidents and diseases, the proper method of feeding suited to their age, strength and constitution, wherein the pernicious customs which have obtain'd among many ignorant grooms and other pretenders to horsemanship, are expos'd, and their errors carefully amended, under which is likewise contain'd the right and proper exercise, necessary not only in the above-mentioned respects, but apply'd to the most usual services required of horses, whether those for travelling and labour, those for the manage, or those for pleasure : as also observations concerning the right ordering of troop-horses, with a discourse of breeding, founded on the Duke of Newcastle's short method, very necessary for the improving our breed, and raising a beautiful and useful ra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, W. (William), 1680?-1750.

Contributor:

Solleysel, Jacques de, 1617-1680.

Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horses--Early works to 1800.

Horses.

Veterinary medicine--Early works to 1800.

Veterinary medicine.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered last pages blank, viii, iv last pages blank, 4 unnumbered last pages blank, 236, vii last pages blank, 1 unnumbered last page blank) ; 21 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for W. Taylor ..., 1721.

Notes:

Chapter 1, on the shape and color of horses, is drawn largely from the works of Solleysel. The last chapter, on breeding, is based on Newcastle's New method and extraordinary invention to dress horses and work them according to nature.

Dedication signed: William Gibson.

Advertisement: p. [2] (first count).

Includes index.

OCLC:

751374