Markham's master piece: containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases in horses. Drawn with great Pains from Approved Experience, and the Publick Practice of the best Horse-Marshals in Christendom. Divided into two books. The I. Containing Cures Physical: The II. All Cures Chirurgical. Together with The Nature, Use, and Quality of every Simple mentioned through the whole Work. Now the seventeenth time printed, corrected, and augmented, with above Thirty New Chapters, and Forty New Medicines heretofore never Publish'd. To which is added, the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, Cows, Sheep, Hogs, Goats, Dogs, and all smaller Cattle. Also the compleat jockey; Containing Methods for the Training Horses up for Racing, with their Heats and Courses, and Manner of Keeping, &c. Also, Instructions to avoid being Cheated by Horse-Coursers. To which is Added, in this Seventeenth Impression, Directions to preserve all sorts of Cattle, from all manner of Diseases, and to feed Cattle Fat, without Corn, Hay, or Grass. Also the true Way to improve St-Foin. With divers other Things never before made Publick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Standardized Title:

Markhams maister-peece

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cattle--Diseases--Treatment--Early works to 1800.

Cattle.

Horses--Diseases--Treatment--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.

Horses.

Horses--Diseases--Treatment.

Cattle--Diseases--Treatment.

Horses--Diseases.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages,336,iii,i,22,39 pages, 1 unnumbered page,plate : illustrations ; 4⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for M. Wotton, at the Three Daggers in Fleet-Street; and G. Conyers, at the Golden-Ring in Little-Britain, 1710.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

With an initial leaf of advertisements and an additional titlepage, engraved.

The appendix and the compleat jockey are separately paginated; the register is continuous throughout.

A variant has master-piece in the title.

Price from imprint: Price 3 s. 6 d.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T121688.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.