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Astley, John, d. 1595

The art of riding : set foorth in a breefe treatise, with a due interpretation of certeine places alledged out of Xenophon, and Gryson, verie expert and excellent, horssemen: wherein also the true vse of the hand by the said Grysons rules and precepts is speciallie touched: and how the author of this present work hath put the same into practise, also what profit men maie reape thereby: without the knowledge whereof, all the residue of the order of riding is but vaine. Lastlie, is added a short discourse of the chaine or cauezzan, the trench, and the martingale

1584

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The art of riding : set foorth in a breefe treatise, with a due interpretation of certeine places alledged out of Xenophon, and Gryson, verie expert and excellent, horssemen: wherein also the true vse of the hand by the said Grysons rules and precepts is speciallie touched: and how the author of this present work hath put the same into practise, also what profit men maie reape thereby: without the knowledge whereof, all the residue of the order of riding is but vaine. Lastlie, is added a short discourse of the chaine or cauezzan, the trench, and the martingale /, Imprinted at London : By Henrie Denham, 1584, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.
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  • Title(s)

    The art of riding : set foorth in a breefe treatise, with a due interpretation of certeine places alledged out of Xenophon, and Gryson, verie expert and excellent, horssemen: wherein also the true vse of the hand by the said Grysons rules and precepts is speciallie touched: and how the author of this present work hath put the same into practise, also what profit men maie reape thereby: without the knowledge whereof, all the residue of the order of riding is but vaine. Lastlie, is added a short discourse of the chaine or cauezzan, the trench, and the martingale / written by a gentleman of great skill and long experience in the said art.

  • Additional Title(s)

    Discourse of horssemanship

  • Published/Created

    Imprinted at London : By Henrie Denham, 1584.

  • Physical Description

    [8], 79, [1] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)

  • Holdings

    Rare Books and Manuscripts
    SF309 .A88 1584
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    Accessible in the Study Room [Request]

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    Copyright Not Evaluated

  • Full Alma Record

    https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9913239173408651

  • Classification

    Books

  • Notes

    By John Astley, who is named on page A4r.
    Dedication signed: G.B. [i.e. John Astley].
    Running title: A discourse of horssemanship.
    Stationer's Register: Entered 17 April.
    Signatures: A-L⁴.
    Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and historiated and floriated initials.
    Printed marginalia.
    Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 884
    English short title catalogue, S100278
    Podeschi, J.B. Books on the horse and horsemanship, 12
    BAC: British Art Center copy bound in gilt-tooled brown morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe of London.

  • Subject Terms

    Horsemanship -- Early works to 1800. |
    Sangorski & Sutcliffe -- Bookbinder.

  • Form/Genre

    Woodcuts.

  • Contributors

    Denham, Henry, d. 1589?, printer. | Grisone, Federico. Ordini di cavalcare. | mackwilliam, h. | Xenophon. On horsemanship.

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