Cecil, The stud farm, or, Hints on breeding for the turf, the chase, and the road , 1851
- Title(s):
The stud farm, or, Hints on breeding for the turf, the chase, and the road : addressed to breeders of race-horses and hunters, to landed proprietors, and especially to tenant farmers / by Cecil.
- Additional Title(s):
Stud farm
- Published/Created:
- Hints on breeding for the turf, the chase, and the road
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851.
London : Spottiswoodes and Shaw, New-Street Square, [1851] - Physical Description:
- xiii, [3], 202 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsSF291.C43 S78 1851 Copy 1View by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/5455066
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Frontispiece engraved by Edward Hacker.
With one wood engraving within the text.
Podeschi, J.B. Books on the horse and horsemanship, 185
BAC: British Art Center copy 1 bound in contemporary red three-quarter morocco and red marbled paper covered boards. Ms inscription: J.G. Grimwood.
BAC: British Art Center copy 2 bound in contemporary quarter calf and dark green cloth. Pictorial stamping of gold mare and foal on front cover. Publisher's advertisements are printed on front and rear pastedowns. Bookplate: Harry Worcester Smith. - Subject Terms:
- Grimwood, J.G. -- Autograph.Horses -- Breeding -- Great Britain.Race horses -- Breeding -- Great Britain.Smith, Harry Worcester -- Bookplate.
- Form/Genre:
- Steel engravings -- 1851.
Wood engravings -- 1851.
Publisher's advertisements. - Export:
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- I. Motives for breeding. Site of building and paddocks
- II. Selection of mares
- III. Barren and other mares
- IV. Stallions
- V. Treatment of mares in foal and with foal
- VI. Foals after weaning
- VII. Yearlings, two years old, and others
- VIII. Breaking
- IX. Physic
- X. Shoeing
- XI. Cultivation and management of land
- XII. Food, its properties and effects.
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