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 ... forming a complete system of the veterinary art, as a present practised at the Royal Veterinary College, London / by W.J. Miles .. ; with numerous illustrations and a series of anatomical plates, engraved from the original drawings from nature, by Benjamin Herring. To which is added an essay on the diseases and management of cattle, sheep, and pigs / by J.I. Lupton. 5 volumes

London : William MacKenzie. 1st edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Some foxing to spine cover. Scattered foxing internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description [48] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm. Notes; With frontispiece (black and white print): Prize cattle. Title-page printed in red and black. Plates by Benjamin Herring as in earlier editions; some of the black and white plates, signed T. Cowan, sc. The coloured plates are chromolithographs. Printed in two columns; text enclosed in double ruled border. List of ""Winners of the great races"" (pages 393-400). ""The diseases of cattle, sheep, and pigs"", by J.I. Lupton, separately paged. Includes index. Subjects; Horses Diseases. Horses Anatomy. Horse racing Great Britain ; Directories. Swine Diseases. Sheep Diseases. Cattle Diseases. Grasses. Veterinary medicine.