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.
Alternate Title(s):
Discourse of horssemanship
Published / Created:
Imprinted at London : By Henrie Denham, 1584.
Physical Description:
[8], 79, [1] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
By John Astley, who is named on page A4r.
Subject Terms:
Horsemanship -- Early works to 1800. | Sangorski & Sutcliffe -- Bookbinder.
Form/Genre:
Woodcuts.
Contributors:
Xenophon. On horsemanship. | Grisone, Federico. Ordini di cavalcare. | mackwilliam, h. | Denham, Henry, d. 1589?, printer.