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[Fifteen-sixty ] Grisone, Federico.
^ A newe booke containing the arte of ryding,
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breaking greate Horses, toge-
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therwith the shapes and Figures,
of many and diuers kyndes of Byt- tes, mete to serue diuers
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mou thes. Very necessary for all
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Gentlemen, Souldy-
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ours, Seruingmen, and for any man that deligh-
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teth in
a horse.
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Black letter. Oftavo.
Collation. Tp., Ai.—Ded. to Lord Robert Dudley, A2-5.—Cts., &c.,
A6-B4.—Col. "
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C Imprinted at London by Willyam Seres dwellinge at
the West ende of Poules, at the signe of the Hedgehog.", (2nd F42).—R.H.
"The . . . booke of the art of Riding."— 51 woodcuts of bits (26 fF.).
Sigs. in 8% A-B, A-M, A-F, A-D2.— ist B and 2nd F in 4*.—24-26
11. to p.
Copies.
B.M.
Contents. The cuts are copied from those of the Italian eds. Abridged
from Grisone by Blundeville, at the suggestion of John Astley.'
It is the first
work in English on equitation, and after its publication, teachers of riding,
who before, says Bedingfield, " were not of much knowledge,*' improved so
much, that by 1584, through their industry and skill, the number of serviceable
horses and horsemen had much increased. Some of the credit for this
change is due, no doubt, to individuals, such as " old Alexander, the earliest
riding-master to the esquires and riders of the Queen's stable," who had been
a pupil of Grisone. Blundeville's remained the most popular book on the
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subjed until the publication of Markham's " Soldiers Accidence " for
Bedingfield, in his abridgment of Corte (v. 30), avoided going over the same
ground as his predecessor.
Chap. XIX. is headed " How to make your horse abide both stafFe, sworde,
great noyse, gonshot, or any other thing." [V. Orig. 707.]
12. Fifteen-sixty. Macchiavelli, Niccolo.
The Arte of warre, |
written first in Italia |
by Nicholas
Machiauell, and set |
forthe in Englishe by Peter |
Whitehorne,
studient at Graies Inne :
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with an addicio of other like
cialle feates and experimen- |
tes, as in a Table in the
» Author of another "Art of Riding" (London, 1584, 4°). This, like Thomas
Blundeville's original work of the same title (London, 1597, 4°), and his "Foure
chiefest Offices belonging to Horsemanship" (London, 1565-66, 4°j 1580, 4% and
1609, 4**), having no specially military interest, is not included here.
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