Cavelarice, or The English horseman : contayning all the arte of horse-manship, as much as is necessary for any man to vnderstand, whether he be horse-breeder, horse-ryder, horse-hunter, horse-runner, horse-ambler, horse-farrier, horse-keeper, coachman, smith, or sadler. Together, with the discouery of the subtill trade or mistery of horse-coursers, & an explanatio[n] of the excellency of a horses vndersta[n]ding, or how to teach them to doe trickes like Bankes his curtall: and that horses may be made to drawe drie-foot like a hound. Secrets before vnpublished, & now carefully set down for the profit of this whole nation / by Geruase Markham.
- Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
- Date:
- [1607]
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
[London] : [Printed for Edward White], [1607]
Physical description
8 parts (16 unnumbered pages, 88 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 264, that is, 244 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 72, that is, 82 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 54 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 56 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 64 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 81, that is, 83 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 40, that is, 36 pages) : illustrations (woodcut) ; 19 cm (4to)
Contributors
References note
Poynter, A bibliography of Gervase Markham, 1962, 19.1
STC 17334
Podeschi 18
Notes
Title within illustrated border
In eight books, each with separate pagination but continuous register
Parts 2-8 each have separate t.p. with imprint: "London Printed for Edward White, and are to be solde at his shop neare the little north doore of Saint Paules Church at the signe of the Gun. 1607" (or similar; pts. 7-8 undated)
"The first six books were printed by Edwarde Allde and the last two apparently by J. Roberts or W. Jaggard" (Poynter)
Collation does not include the large folding woodcut of "The shape and proportion of a perfit horse ... ", called for by Poynter but not recorded in Podeschi; separately entered in the Stationers' Register (Arber, iii, 355) and STC (17387.5 and 17387.7); noted as absent from Science Museum copy and copy sold by Parke-Bernet, 17 March 1964; and not called for in UCLA copy (OCLC) or copies sold at Swann (2 Feb. 1967), Sotheby (18 Nov. 1968), and Hodgson (15 Nov. 1974)
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Maggs 1156 Note: Mispaginated as in Poynter's description plus Bk. 1, p. 98 for 99. Lower margins cropped with occasional loss of text, fore-edge shaved within some title borders. Binding: C17th blind-ruled calf, corner tools, re-backed. Early spine onlaid with later? (C18th?) gilt tooling incl. cipher of the Earls of Essex; recent red goatskin title label. Engraved armorial book-plate of Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex (1670-1709/10), dated 1701, on t.p. verso
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Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/B/7316