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 and 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 Chyrargical. Together with The Nature, Use, and Quality of every Simple mentioned through the whole Work. Now the Nineteenth Time Printed, Corrected and Augmented, with above Thirty New Chapters, and Forty new Medicines, heretofore never Published. To which is Added, The Exactest Receipts for Curing all Diseases, in Oxen, Cow, Sheep, Hogs, Goats, Dogs, and all small Catle. 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 Horsecoursers. To which is added in this nineteenth 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 Way to improve St-Foin. With divers other things never before made publick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([8],280,297-304,289-319,ii-iii,2-22,2,25-64p. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Markham's master-piece

Place of Publication:

London : printed for N. and M. Boddington, at the Golden-Hall in Duke-Lane; and G. Conyers, at the Golden-Ring in Little-Britain; and M. Wotton at the Cross Daggers in Fleet-Street, [1717]

Notes:

With an additional wood-cut titlepage.

Pp.250, 251 and 254, 255 are misnumbered 150, 151 and 154, 155 respectively; the text is complete despite such irregularities in pagination.

Variant: the page following 318 in numbered "i".

Price from imprint: Price 4s.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T122444.

OCLC:

642332839