The Compleat Horseman and Expert Ferrier, in Two Bookes

by Thomas De Grey

$5,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

FIRST EDITION, one of three parallel issues of the edition, distinguished by the imprint. Frontispiece portrait of King Charles on horseback by William Marshall. 30 , 356, 5, index pp. Thomas Wykes, Imprimatur at foot of p. 356 leaf 2Z2 . Bound without last blank. 1 vols. Folio. Contemporary calf tooled in blind. Rebacked with new spine, new endpapers preserving earlier binder’s blanks. Good. Frontispiece trimmed and backed, numerous early paper repairs

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