The Horse's Friend. The only practical meth od of Educating The Horse and Eradicating Vicious Habits, followed by a variety of valuable recipes, instructions in farriery, horse-shoeing, the latest rules of trotting, and the record of fast horses up to 1876. Questo articolo non è disponibile.The Horse's Friend. The only practical meth od of Educating The Horse and Eradicating Vicious Habits, followed by a variety of valuable recipes, instructions in farriery, horse-shoeing, the latest rules of trotting, and the record of fast horses up to 1876

8vo, 21cm, 18th thousand, Canadian Edition, 541p., wood-engraved frontis portrait & title page vignette & c.140 plates and illustrations from engravings, original middle brown cloth, elaborately gilt and black stamped pictorial decorated on the spine and cover, repeated in blind on the bottom board, oval colour horse illustration laid in on the upper cover, gilt block titles and bands, bevelled boards, middle brown endpapers, small oval private library label on the front paste down endpaper, Binder' Ticket on the back endpaper "Dawson Bro's BINDERS Montreal", a fine bright copy .(sgc). The author was born in Darien, Genesee County, New York state, 1835.