![MORGAN, Nicholas. The Perfection of Horse-manship, drawne from Nature; Arte, and Practise. London: [Edward Allde for] Edward White, 1609.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07300_0541_000(113238).jpg?w=1)
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MORGAN, Nicholas. The Perfection of Horse-manship, drawne from Nature; Arte, and Practise. London: [Edward Allde for] Edward White, 1609.
4° (181 x 146mm). Title with woodcut upper border. Woodcut illustration of horseshoes, head- and tailpieces and initials. (Occasional light marking and unobtrusive dampstaining, a few leaves trimmed touching headline, title torn causing small loss from border, small hole in F4, lacking bifolium \Kc\kS1.2 and index and errata leaves Z1-2.) Contemporary limp vellum, lettered in manuscript on the spine (a little marked, chipped and cockled, lacking ties, lacking endpapers and detached from bookblock).
FIRST EDITION. RARE. The sheets of this work by Morgan (who styles himself 'of Crolane, in the Countye of Kent, Gent.' on the title), were subsequently reissued in 1620 by the Widow Helme and J. Marriott under the title The Horse-mans Honour, or, The Beautie of Horsemanship, with cancelled title and preliminary leaves. No copy of the 1609 edition is recorded at auction by ABPC since 1975. Huth p. 15; Lowndes pp. 1610-1611; Mellon/Podeschi 19; STC 18105.
4° (181 x 146mm). Title with woodcut upper border. Woodcut illustration of horseshoes, head- and tailpieces and initials. (Occasional light marking and unobtrusive dampstaining, a few leaves trimmed touching headline, title torn causing small loss from border, small hole in F4, lacking bifolium \Kc\kS1.2 and index and errata leaves Z1-2.) Contemporary limp vellum, lettered in manuscript on the spine (a little marked, chipped and cockled, lacking ties, lacking endpapers and detached from bookblock).
FIRST EDITION. RARE. The sheets of this work by Morgan (who styles himself 'of Crolane, in the Countye of Kent, Gent.' on the title), were subsequently reissued in 1620 by the Widow Helme and J. Marriott under the title The Horse-mans Honour, or, The Beautie of Horsemanship, with cancelled title and preliminary leaves. No copy of the 1609 edition is recorded at auction by ABPC since 1975. Huth p. 15; Lowndes pp. 1610-1611; Mellon/Podeschi 19; STC 18105.
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