Beschreibung:

NEWCASTLE, William Cavendish, Duke of (1592-1676). A New Method, and Extraordinary Invention, to dress Horses, and work them according to Nature . London: Tho. Milbourn, 1667. 2° (366 x 226mm). (Occasional light spotting, mostly in the margins.) Contemporary calf (rather rubbed, upper cover detached). Provenance : Contemporary emendations to the text in ink -- W.W. Greg, the bibliographer (signature, dated 1924, on an endpaper, and one A.L.S. and an autograph signed postcard to him from Francis Needham, both dated July 1931, from Welbeck Abbey, both about Restoration drama). LARGE PAPER COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. As Newcastle himself says in his foreword this is not a translation of the Methode nouvelle , published at Antwerp in 1657, 'nor an absolutely necessary Addition to it, [but it] may be of use by it self, without the other, as the other hath been hitherto, and is still, without this; but both together will questionless do best'. A French translation, also printed by Milbourn, appeared in the same year. Huth p.23; Mennessier de la Lance II, p.248; Wing N-887. DE GREY, Thomas. The Compleat Horse-Man, and Expert Farrier . London: E.C. and A.C. for Samuel Lowndes, 1670. 4° (201 x 137mm). Engraved frontispiece of a man on a rearing horse. (A few quires lightly browned, last leaf slightly stained.) Contemporary sprinkled sheep (rebacked). Provenance : 18th-century pressmarks -- William Charles de Meuron, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (bookplate). Fourth edition. Wing D-859; cf. Mellon/Podeschi 23 (describing the first edition of 1639); and E.R.'s The Experienced Farrier (London, 1681). (3)