BIBLIOGRAPHY 



Author's Note. — It should scarcely be necessary to point 

 out that a complete Bibliography on the subject of Horses 

 and Horsemanship is impossible. But that is no reason why 

 a BibHography should not be given. The following books 

 will be found interesting and many of them useful to the 

 diligent student of Horses and Horsemanship. The author has 

 a passing acquaintance with all of them. 



The four e chiefyst offices belongyng to Horsemanshippe. That 

 is to saye, The office of the Breder, of the Rider, of the 

 Keper, and the Ferer. In the first parte whereof is 

 declared the order of breding of horses. In the second, 

 ho we to breake them, and to make theym horses of 

 servyce. Conteyninge the whole Arte of Ridynge lately 

 set forth, and nowe newly corrected and amended of 

 manye faultes escaped in the fyrste printynge, as well 

 touchyng the bittes as otherwyse. Thirdly, howe to 

 dyet Them, as well when they reste, as when they trauell 

 by the way. Fourthly, to what diseases they be subiect, 

 together with the causes of such diseases, the sygnes 

 howe to knowe them, and finallie howe to cure the same. 

 Whyche books are not onely paynfuUie collected out of a 

 number of aucthours, but also orderlie dysposed and 

 applyed to the use of thys our contrie. By Thomas 

 Blundevile. 1580. 



A New Method, and Extraordinary Invention, to Dress Horses, 



and worke them according to Nature ; as also to Perfect 



Nature by the subtilty of Art. Which was never found out, 

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