![MARKHAM, Gervase (1568?-1637). A Discource of Horsemanshippe. Wherein the Breeding and Ryding of Horses for Seruice, in a Breefe Manner is more methodically sette downe then hath been heeretofore...Also the Manner to chuse, trayne, ryde and dyet, both Hunting-Horses, and Running-Horses. London: I. C[harlewood] for Richard Smith, 1593.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07300_0532_000(113237).jpg?w=1)
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MARKHAM, Gervase (1568?-1637). A Discource of Horsemanshippe. Wherein the Breeding and Ryding of Horses for Seruice, in a Breefe Manner is more methodically sette downe then hath been heeretofore...Also the Manner to chuse, trayne, ryde and dyet, both Hunting-Horses, and Running-Horses. London: I. C[harlewood] for Richard Smith, 1593.
4° (181 x 125mm). Woodcut device on title and 11 woodcut illustrations in the text, mostly black letter. (Lower inner corner of title repaired with no damage to text, very small stain on same leaf.) Green crushed morocco gilt by Bedford, gilt edges. Provenance: Huth copy (bookplate) -- C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 11 March 1946, lot 1730).
HUTH-SCHWERDT COPY OF THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF MARKHAM'S FIRST BOOK. It is dedicated to his father Robert, an experienced horse breeder, and in the first chapter Gervase writes with enthusiasm about one of the first Arab stallions imported into England and which his father gave the twenty-three year old to train -- it also provides one of the closest comparisons to the description of the stallion in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis. The third chapter (of four) contains a description of 'the wild goose chase', and the origin of the modern steeplechase while the last describes the training of racehorses, 'the original version of the tract published nearly a century later as The Complete Jockey and ... the first classic in the literature of what was to become the most popular of all English sports' (Poynter). The Discource was reprinted five times between 1593 and 1606. NO COPY IN BL. STC 17346 (locating only this copy and that at Bodley); Poynter 17.1 (adding an imperfect copy sold at Swann Galleries in 1954).
4° (181 x 125mm). Woodcut device on title and 11 woodcut illustrations in the text, mostly black letter. (Lower inner corner of title repaired with no damage to text, very small stain on same leaf.) Green crushed morocco gilt by Bedford, gilt edges. Provenance: Huth copy (bookplate) -- C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate; his sale, 11 March 1946, lot 1730).
HUTH-SCHWERDT COPY OF THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF MARKHAM'S FIRST BOOK. It is dedicated to his father Robert, an experienced horse breeder, and in the first chapter Gervase writes with enthusiasm about one of the first Arab stallions imported into England and which his father gave the twenty-three year old to train -- it also provides one of the closest comparisons to the description of the stallion in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis. The third chapter (of four) contains a description of 'the wild goose chase', and the origin of the modern steeplechase while the last describes the training of racehorses, 'the original version of the tract published nearly a century later as The Complete Jockey and ... the first classic in the literature of what was to become the most popular of all English sports' (Poynter). The Discource was reprinted five times between 1593 and 1606. NO COPY IN BL. STC 17346 (locating only this copy and that at Bodley); Poynter 17.1 (adding an imperfect copy sold at Swann Galleries in 1954).
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