![MARKHAM, Gervase (1568?-1637). A most Exact, Ready and Plaine Discourse, how to trayne and teach Horses to amble, of what Nature or Condition soeuer. By I.M. London: G. E[ld] for Edward Blount, 1605.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07300_0532A_000(113237).jpg?w=1)
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MARKHAM, Gervase (1568?-1637). A most Exact, Ready and Plaine Discourse, how to trayne and teach Horses to amble, of what Nature or Condition soeuer. By I.M. London: G. E[ld] for Edward Blount, 1605.
4° (182 x 123mm). Large woodcut of a horse on title, repeated on C4r, another large woodcut of a trammelled horse on C2v, woodcut decoration on penultimate page. (Last leaf extensively restored with some loss of text and a small part of the decoration, almost all fore-corners repaired with no loss of text, some browning and soiling.) Early 20th-century red morocco. Provenance: Robinson Brothers (inserted catalogue entry, c. 1952).
EXTREMELY RARE. This little work which Markham refers to in Book IV of Cauelarice and which deals with the same subject was, until about fifty years ago, one of Markham's 'lost' books, causing Sir Frederick Smith in his The Early History of Veterinary Literature, 1919, to doubt the work's existence and to suggest that Markham was lying. The book, dedicated to the Italophile and lexicographer John Florio, describes the methods used in making horses amble, that is making them walk with both legs on the same side moving forward together with the use of trammels or hobbles. NOT IN BL. Poynter 18.1; STC 17384.5 (locating only this copy and that in the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA).
4° (182 x 123mm). Large woodcut of a horse on title, repeated on C4
EXTREMELY RARE. This little work which Markham refers to in Book IV of Cauelarice and which deals with the same subject was, until about fifty years ago, one of Markham's 'lost' books, causing Sir Frederick Smith in his The Early History of Veterinary Literature, 1919, to doubt the work's existence and to suggest that Markham was lying. The book, dedicated to the Italophile and lexicographer John Florio, describes the methods used in making horses amble, that is making them walk with both legs on the same side moving forward together with the use of trammels or hobbles. NOT IN BL. Poynter 18.1; STC 17384.5 (locating only this copy and that in the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA).
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