![MARKHAM, Gervaise (1568?-1637). A fair-copy manuscript, entitled 'Markhams Remembrancer of unpublished Secretts' shewinge howe a man may come to be a Generall horsman by the knowledge of Seaven Offices'. [No place or date but c. 1630].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07300_0534_000(113237).jpg?w=1)
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MARKHAM, Gervaise (1568?-1637). A fair-copy manuscript, entitled 'Markhams Remembrancer of unpublished Secretts' shewinge howe a man may come to be a Generall horsman by the knowledge of Seaven Offices'. [No place or date but c. 1630].
171 leaves, small 8vo (145 x 93mm). 316pp. in a single hand, margins ruled in pencil, 8pp. of notes and receipts in a second later hand. Contemporary sheep over pasteboard, the covers with a triple fillet border: two in blind, one in gilt, gilt fleuron cornerpieces, large central lozenge-shaped gilt arabesque, the flat spine divided into nine compartments by double gilt fillets (ties lacking, tears to leather on covers, spine scuffed and with small sections lacking at head and foot).
AN IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPT, 'POSSIBLY IN MARKHAM'S HAND', being a pre-publication version of his Perfect Horseman. Writing in 1962, Markham's bibliographer, F.N.L. Poynter, noted that after Markham's death among 'his papers was found the manuscript of a similar work [to The Kings High-Way to Horsemanship] which was first published by Lancelot Thetford as The Perfect Horsman in 1655. The manuscript, possibly in Markham's hand, is now in the collection of H.R.H. the Duke of Glocester' (A Bibliography of Gervase Markham p.28). The work is broken down into seven different sub-sections in keeping with the 'seaven offices' of breeder, ryder, feeder, keeper, ambler, buyer and farrier. Poynter records two other manuscript versions, one in the Bodleian Library: 'a seventeenth-century transcript which was formerly in the posession of Elias Ashmole' (op. cit p.28); and a third copy 'not in Markham's hand' which, in 1962, had been 'recently acquired' by John F. Fleming of New York.
171 leaves, small 8vo (145 x 93mm). 316pp. in a single hand, margins ruled in pencil, 8pp. of notes and receipts in a second later hand. Contemporary sheep over pasteboard, the covers with a triple fillet border: two in blind, one in gilt, gilt fleuron cornerpieces, large central lozenge-shaped gilt arabesque, the flat spine divided into nine compartments by double gilt fillets (ties lacking, tears to leather on covers, spine scuffed and with small sections lacking at head and foot).
AN IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPT, 'POSSIBLY IN MARKHAM'S HAND', being a pre-publication version of his Perfect Horseman. Writing in 1962, Markham's bibliographer, F.N.L. Poynter, noted that after Markham's death among 'his papers was found the manuscript of a similar work [to The Kings High-Way to Horsemanship] which was first published by Lancelot Thetford as The Perfect Horsman in 1655. The manuscript, possibly in Markham's hand, is now in the collection of H.R.H. the Duke of Glocester' (A Bibliography of Gervase Markham p.28). The work is broken down into seven different sub-sections in keeping with the 'seaven offices' of breeder, ryder, feeder, keeper, ambler, buyer and farrier. Poynter records two other manuscript versions, one in the Bodleian Library: 'a seventeenth-century transcript which was formerly in the posession of Elias Ashmole' (op. cit p.28); and a third copy 'not in Markham's hand' which, in 1962, had been 'recently acquired' by John F. Fleming of New York.
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