Acceptable/'GOOD' ONLY. A Sound copy in Contemporary quarter maroon calf with gilt titling, (edges lightly rubbed) with green cloth covered boards ( somewhat rubbed, bumped, marked and scuffed - otherwise Good). Internally the book needs new endpapers as the front lacks all before the Title page and the rear lacks the rear free endpaper which has been torn away. Some grubby marks throughout with some 'side-lining' markings to the text here and there. The top corner blank margin on the 'Contents' page has also been torn off. (xii) + (1 'Stud Farm' Plan ) + 244pp. Possibly lacks a Frontispiece? (the original 1851 edition had one) but as this is a Thoroughly REVISED Edition 1873 it may never have had one? - as with many antique books there is no 'plate' list in this book ) - but the full page Litho of the 'Plan for the buildings of a Stud Farm' is present after the Contents page. Contents Include: Motives for Breeding, Selection of Mares - Barren and Other Mares - Stallions - Treatment of Mares in Foal and With Foal - Foals After Weaning - Yearlings, Two Years Old and Others - Breaking - Physic - Shoeing - Cultivation and Management of Land - Food, It's Properties and Effects, etc, etc. An Interesting and Original copy. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall.

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Title

The STUD FARM or Hints on Breeding for the Turf, the Chase, and the Road Adressed to Breeders of Race Horses and Hunters to Landed Proprietors and Especially to Tenant Farmers. a NEW Edition - Thoroughly Revised. 1873.

Publisher

George Routledge & Sons, London

Publication Date

1873

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

Third Edition.

Condition

Fair

Dust Jacket Condition

No Dust Jacket

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In business for 45+ years to date, semi-retired and working from home nowadays, formerly exhibiting at Major London BookFairs, and some Provincial ones within reach of the M4! Retired Member of both the PBFA and the WBA. BA.Hons in Humanities. View by Appointment PLEASE. You can call 'on the off-chance' but I may be out/away. Happy to see customers but they have to be able to squeeze through the book aisles/piles! Unfortunately there is Limited wheelchair access. BOOKS Everywhere!

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