compendium practical experimental farriery originally von taplin william (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. xii, 274, XX [2], . . HB. Recent half cloth, paper label to spine, new endpapers. Text uncut. Lacks frontis and folding plate. Signature of the silversmith Samuel Augustine Courtauld, dated August 1817, with his bookplate, motto Tiens a la vérité. He emigrated to the United States where he died in 1821. William Taplin (1740's -1807) was apprenticed in Middlesex to the apothecary George Harding from 1763 to 1770. 'Taplin considered himself a doctor or a surgeon apothecary, from 1770 to the mid 1780s he practiced surgery for 'families of the first respectability'. During this period of his life, he became very interested in racing and equine sport. At the beginning of the 1770s he became a member of elite hunting circles and met influential individuals who supported him throughout his career. By the end of the 1780s, Taplin had become the most popular equine health care author in England; he built a large London receptacle for horse care and created the largest network of equine medical sales for pills in the eighteenth century'. M. H. MacKay, 2009, The Rise of a Medical Specialty: The Medicalisation of Elite Equine Care c.1680 - c.1800.

G. G. and J. Robinson and G. Kearsley. London. 1796. [xii], 274 pages plus [2] pages of adverts. for medicines. Early edition with engraved frontis and zone plate of horseshoes, lacking small part from lower edge. Full 18th century brown calf, rubbed and worn to edges. Contrasting leather label, leather split at joint with head of spine. Inner hinge visible but sound. Marbled endpapers. Pages browned and spotted with a large patch of browning to page 205, slightly obscuring 6 lines of text. Generally a clean and sound copy.