A bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of ...
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[Fifteen-sixty ] Grisone, Federico.<br />
^ A newe booke containing the arte <strong>of</strong> ryding,<br />
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breaking greate Horses, <strong>to</strong>ge-<br />
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therwith the shapes <strong>and</strong> Figures,<br />
<strong>of</strong> many <strong>and</strong> diuers kyndes <strong>of</strong> Byt- tes, mete <strong>to</strong> serue diuers<br />
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Gentlemen, Souldy-<br />
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ours, Seruingmen, <strong>and</strong> for any man that deligh-<br />
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teth in<br />
a horse.<br />
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Black letter. Oftavo.<br />
Collation. Tp., Ai.—Ded. <strong>to</strong> Lord Robert Dudley, A2-5.—Cts., &c.,<br />
A6-B4.—Col. "<br />
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C Imprinted at London by Willyam Seres dwellinge at<br />
the West ende <strong>of</strong> Poules, at the signe <strong>of</strong> the Hedgehog.", (2nd F42).—R.H.<br />
"The . . . booke <strong>of</strong> the art <strong>of</strong> Riding."— 51 woodcuts <strong>of</strong> bits (26 fF.).<br />
Sigs. in 8% A-B, A-M, A-F, A-D2.— ist B <strong>and</strong> 2nd F in 4*.—24-26<br />
11. <strong>to</strong> p.<br />
Copies.<br />
B.M.<br />
Contents. The cuts are copied from those <strong>of</strong> the Italian eds. Abridged<br />
from Grisone by Blundeville, at the suggestion <strong>of</strong> John Astley.'<br />
It is the first<br />
work in <strong>English</strong> on equitation, <strong>and</strong> after its publication, teachers <strong>of</strong> riding,<br />
who before, says Bedingfield, " were not <strong>of</strong> much knowledge,*' improved so<br />
much, that by 1584, through their industry <strong>and</strong> skill, the number <strong>of</strong> serviceable<br />
horses <strong>and</strong> horsemen had much increased. Some <strong>of</strong> the credit for this<br />
change is due, no doubt, <strong>to</strong> individuals, such as " old Alex<strong>and</strong>er, the earliest<br />
riding-master <strong>to</strong> the esquires <strong>and</strong> riders <strong>of</strong> the Queen's stable," who had been<br />
a p<strong>up</strong>il <strong>of</strong> Grisone. Blundeville's remained the most popular book on the<br />
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subjed until the publication <strong>of</strong> Markham's " Soldiers Accidence " for<br />
Bedingfield, in his abridgment <strong>of</strong> Corte (v. 30), avoided going over the same<br />
ground as his predecessor.<br />
Chap. XIX. is headed " How <strong>to</strong> make your horse abide both stafFe, sworde,<br />
great noyse, gonshot, or any other thing." [V. Orig. 707.]<br />
12. Fifteen-sixty. Macchiavelli, Niccolo.<br />
The Arte <strong>of</strong> warre, |<br />
written first in Italia |<br />
by Nicholas<br />
Machiauell, <strong>and</strong> set |<br />
forthe in <strong>English</strong>e by Peter |<br />
Whitehorne,<br />
studient at Graies Inne :<br />
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with an addicio <strong>of</strong> other like<br />
cialle feates <strong>and</strong> experimen- |<br />
tes, as in a Table in the<br />
» Author <strong>of</strong> another "Art <strong>of</strong> Riding" (London, 1584, 4°). This, like Thomas<br />
Blundeville's original work <strong>of</strong> the same title (London, 1597, 4°), <strong>and</strong> his "Foure<br />
chiefest Offices belonging <strong>to</strong> Horsemanship" (London, 1565-66, 4°j 1580, 4% <strong>and</strong><br />
1609, 4**), having no specially <strong>military</strong> interest, is not included here.<br />
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