![MARKHAM, Gervase (1568-1637). Cavelarice, or the English Horseman: contayning all the Art of Horse-manship, as much as is Necessary for any Man to vnderstand. [London: E. Allde and W. Jaggard for E. White, 1607].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1999/CKS/1999_CKS_06222_0161_000(122306).jpg?w=1)
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MARKHAM, Gervase (1568-1637). Cavelarice, or the English Horseman: contayning all the Art of Horse-manship, as much as is Necessary for any Man to vnderstand. [London: E. Allde and W. Jaggard for E. White, 1607].
8 parts (the first six with continuous signatures) in one, 4 (190 x 139mm). Title of the first 2 parts within a fine woodcut historiated border, title of other parts with a woodcut head- and tailpiece and a device, 66 woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text, including illustrations of bits, bridles, a horse and a saddle. (Small piece torn from foot of first title and fore-margin of following leaf causing some loss of border and text.) Contemporary English vellum bound in Dutch style, compartments of spine and sides panelled in blind (lacks ties and front endpapers). Provenance: contemporary inscription on title and a few notes in a different contemporary hand at the end (both in English); later gilt arms on a piece of black leather in bottom compartment of spine.
FIRST EDITION of Markham's second practical manual on horsemanship with the eighth book devoted to the tricks of Banks's horse which he is supposed, famously, to have ridden up the steeple of St. Paul's. Markham, himself, was the owner of valuable horses and is said to have imported the first Arab into England. He later sold one to James I for 500. STC 17334; Mellon 18; Huth p.15.
8 parts (the first six with continuous signatures) in one, 4 (190 x 139mm). Title of the first 2 parts within a fine woodcut historiated border, title of other parts with a woodcut head- and tailpiece and a device, 66 woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text, including illustrations of bits, bridles, a horse and a saddle. (Small piece torn from foot of first title and fore-margin of following leaf causing some loss of border and text.) Contemporary English vellum bound in Dutch style, compartments of spine and sides panelled in blind (lacks ties and front endpapers). Provenance: contemporary inscription on title and a few notes in a different contemporary hand at the end (both in English); later gilt arms on a piece of black leather in bottom compartment of spine.
FIRST EDITION of Markham's second practical manual on horsemanship with the eighth book devoted to the tricks of Banks's horse which he is supposed, famously, to have ridden up the steeple of St. Paul's. Markham, himself, was the owner of valuable horses and is said to have imported the first Arab into England. He later sold one to James I for 500. STC 17334; Mellon 18; Huth p.15.