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BLUNDEVILLE, Thomas (fl.1561). The Fower Chiefest Offices belonging to Horsemanshippe. London: Willyam Seres, [c. 1570].
4 parts in one volume with continuous signatures, 4° (185 x 137mm). Black letter. Woodcut title border [McKerrow and Ferguson 121], 51 large woodcuts of bits and 2 full-page illustrations of hooves, 2 woodcut diagrams, a few smaller cuts, woodcut initials, one large and historiated, with the final colophon leaf. (A little worming in the lower margins as far as E8 touches one letter and the border of part 2, a few upper fore-corners lightly waterstained.) Early 20th-century speckled calf gilt, gilt edges. Provenance: shaved signature at head of first title -- numerous neat marginalia in an early 17th-century hand -- Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, 1701 (1670-1710, engraved armorial bookplate on title verso).
THE ESSEX COPY. Second edition, dedicated to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, of Blundeville's popular work on the breeding, riding, and physical care of horses. Little is known of the author; he is supposed to have gone to Cambridge, but it is not known when; he inherited, in 1568, his father's estate at Newton Flotman in whose church he is buried. Apart from this and another book on horsemanship, he also wrote on logic, astronomy, maps, cards, and the writing of history. Mellon/Podeschi 8; STC 3153.
4 parts in one volume with continuous signatures, 4° (185 x 137mm). Black letter. Woodcut title border [McKerrow and Ferguson 121], 51 large woodcuts of bits and 2 full-page illustrations of hooves, 2 woodcut diagrams, a few smaller cuts, woodcut initials, one large and historiated, with the final colophon leaf. (A little worming in the lower margins as far as E8 touches one letter and the border of part 2, a few upper fore-corners lightly waterstained.) Early 20th-century speckled calf gilt, gilt edges. Provenance: shaved signature at head of first title -- numerous neat marginalia in an early 17th-century hand -- Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, 1701 (1670-1710, engraved armorial bookplate on title verso).
THE ESSEX COPY. Second edition, dedicated to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, of Blundeville's popular work on the breeding, riding, and physical care of horses. Little is known of the author; he is supposed to have gone to Cambridge, but it is not known when; he inherited, in 1568, his father's estate at Newton Flotman in whose church he is buried. Apart from this and another book on horsemanship, he also wrote on logic, astronomy, maps, cards, and the writing of history. Mellon/Podeschi 8; STC 3153.
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