Markhams maister-peece
Subtitle: containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech, touching the curing of all diseases in horses ... being divided into two bookes, the first containing all cures physicall, the second all belonging to chirurgery ...
By: written by Gervase Markham, Gent.
Contributors: Wilson, William, fl. 1640-1665, printer.; Sawbridge, George, d. 1681, bookseller.; Hampton, Ellen, signer.; Nash, W. signer.; Ferris, William, signer.; Veterinary History Collection.
Edition: Now the eighth time newly imprinted, corrected and augmented with above thirty new chapters and above forty new medicines that are most certaine and approved and heretofore never published ...
Publisher: Imprinted at London by W. Wilson, and are to be sold by George Sawbridge ...
Published: 1656
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 591
Subjects: Horses -- Diseases -- Early works to 1800; Horses -- Anatomy -- Early works to 1800; Livestock -- Diseases -- Early works to 1800; Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Contains added illustrated t.p.

Second part has special t.p. in decorative border, with vignette.

Head- and tail-pieces, decorative initials; marginal fists.

Signatures: A-Z8, Aa-Pp8, Qq4, Rr8.

Errors in pagination: 20 misnumbered as 10, 79 as 76, 273 as 237, 275 as 285, 375 as 379, 379 as 375, 389 as 382, 299 as 269, 403 as 303, 415 as 451, 469 as 569, 470-471 as 474-475, 472-473 as 572-573, 474-475 as 478-479, 476 as 576, 508 as 408, 512 as 412, 538-539 as 558-559, 549 as 546, 559 as 556, 561 as 560.

Smithcors, J.F. Five centuries of vet. med., 983.

Wing, M660.

WSU MASC copy signed on front free endpaper: "Ellen Hampton".

WSU MASC copy has recipe for horse medicine inscribed on front flyleaf.

WSU MASC copy signed on p. [1]: "William Ferris his Book 1747".

WSU MASC copy signed on p. [22] and [23] at end: "The book of William Nash" and "William Nash his Book".

WSU MASC copy is: 002-105063796.