Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Badcock, John, active 1816-1830
Title:
Conversations on conditioning : the grooms' oracle, and pocket stable-directory : in which the management of horses generally, as to health, dieting, and exercise, are considered, in a series of familiar dialogues, between two grooms engaged in training horses to their work / with notes, and an appendix, including extracts from the receipt book of John Hinds, V.S. ; author of "The Veterinary Surgeon."
Alternate Title(s):
Grooms' oracle, and pocket stable-directory
Published / Created:
London : Printed for the author, for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 23, Paternoster Row : and Hurst, Chance, and Co. 65, St. Paul's-Church-Yard, 1829.

[London] : Marchant, printer, Ingram-Court, Fenchurch-Street
Physical Description:
xii, 274, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
SF285.3 .B32 1829
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
John Hinds is a pseudonym of John Badcock.

Frontispiece engraved by J. Brown, after Samuel Alken.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Publisher's advertisement: [1] page at end.

Podeschi, J.B. Books on the horse and horsemanship, 133

Huth, F.H. Works on horses and equitation, 109

Buckley, A.K. The Keeneland Association Library, 8

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's brown quarter cloth and tan paper covered boards. White paper label printed in black on spine. In tan cloth slip-case; dark brown leather label with gold lettering on spine.
Subject Terms:
Horses. | Horses -- Diseases. | Horses -- Training. | Clark, Robert Sterling, d. 1956 -- Ownership. | Adams, Joseph -- Stamp and inscription.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1829. | Publishers' advertisements.
Contributors:
Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, publisher. | Hurst, Chance and Co., publisher. | Marchant, W., printer. | Alken, Samuel, 1756–1815, illustrator.