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• Author/Creator:Miles, W. J. (William J.), author.
  
• Title:Modern practical farriery : a complete guide to all that relates to the horse, its history, varieties, and uses : breaking, training, feeding, stabling, and grooming : how to buy, keep and treat a horse in health and disease, etc. etc. : forming a complete system of the veterinary art, as at present practised at the Royal Veterinary College, London / by W.J. Miles, M.R.C.V.S.L. ; with numerous illustrations and a series of anatomical plates, engraved from original drawings from nature, by Benjamin Herring, Esq. ; to which is added an essay on the diseases and management of cattle, sheep, and pigs by J.L. Lupton, M.R.C.V.S.
  
• Publication:London : William Mackenzie, 69 Ludgate Hill, E.C. : Glasgow, and Edinburgh, 1885.
  
• Physical Description:[2], 536, vii, [1], iv, 96 pages, 39 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 31 cm
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: SF753 .M55 1885+ Oversize
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

  • Location:Library Shelving Facility (LSF)
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  • Call Number: Uzfy11 +885M
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Local Notes:MUDD Uzfy11 +885M: Imperfect: front. and some other plates wanting.
  BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary black half morocco, and brown morocco; gold stamped on front and back covers, gold lettering on spine: "Miles' Farriery Illustrated", blind stamped on spine, all edges marbled.
  
• Notes:Illustrations after Benjamin Herring.
  With an added chromolithographed title page.
  
• Format:Book
• Subjects:Veterinary medicine--Great Britain--History--19th century.
  Horses--Diseases.
  Domestic animals--Great Britain--History--19th century.
  Domestic animals--Diseases.
  
• Genre/Form:Lithographs--1885.
  Chromolithographs--1885.
  
• Also listed under:Herring, Benjamin, 1830-1871, illustrator.
  Mackenzie, William (Publisher), publisher.
  Lupton, James Irvine. Diseases and management of cattle, sheep, and pigs.