The Horse: Its Treatment in Health and Disease, with a Complete Guide to Breeding, Training, and Management (In 9 Volumes)
Axe, Prof. J. Wortley (ed.)
The Gresham Publishing Company, London, 1906. Decorative Cloth. No Jacket. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Condition: This set of nine volumes are all in reasonable condition. The original green cloth is decorated with a black and greyish-green colour in an art nouveau design. The lettering on the front boards and the spines are in gilt. The corners of these books are a little bumped; the binding of Vol 1 is slightly loose but intact; the Frontispiece to Vol 2 is taped in; the cover and spine of Vol 3 is a little sunburnt; there is minor damage to the cover of Vol 4; the books all have intermittent foxing throughout. The endpapers are coloured grey. Each volume has a full colour frontispiece. A wonderful collection for the horse enthusiast.
This is the complete nine volume set of ‘The Horse’. Each book is profusely illustrated with colour and black-and-white drawings and photographs. The object of the editor in preparing this work has been to set out in one compact whole some of the most useful information relating to the horse. The origin and development of the horse, his varieties, his breeding, training, and management, in health and disease, with other cognate subjects, have each in turn been considered.
(Extracts from preface follow)
To render the book more intelligible and useful to the reader, each group of diseases is preceded by a brief reference to the anatomy and physiology of the parts therein concerned, and the whole has been written in the simplest possible language consistent with a clear enunciation of the subject.
The greatest care has been taken in the selection and production of the very large series of illustrations which will be found in this book. Of these many are in colours, embracing portraits of prize-winning animals of the leading varieties, and drawings from nature illustrating anatomical and pathological subjects. Of the large number of black-and-white illustrations many are reproductions from photographs, many are drawn from original specimens, or reproduced from drawings in the portfolio of the Editor, while some are from the text-books of Chaveau, Kirks, and others.
Volume 1 is divided into parts about the exterior of the horse, and conformation and its defects. This volume begins a section on varieties of the horse, and then this is continued in volume 2.
Volume 2 also covers health and disease, and this section is continued right through to volume 7, covering topics about skin diseases, organs, muscles, joints, the skull, other bones and fractures, treatments of wounds, medicines and drugs, antiseptics, poisoning, hygiene, operations, and more.
Volume 8 concerns equine locomotion, breeding, training, stables, examination of horses as to soundness, the teeth of the horse, and warranty.
Volume 9 continues the section on warranty, and then covers horse-shoeing, the transit of horses, the horse and its position in the animal world, and the history of the horse.
