Gentleman's Pocket-Farrier.

• imprint_number: 1738.001
• title: The Gentleman's Pocket-Farrier, shewing how to chuse a good Horse; how to use him on a Journey; and what Remedies are proper for common Misfortunes that may befal him on the Road.
• sequence_number: 1
• year: 1738
• place_issued: Williamsburg
• issuing_press: William Parks
• author: Burdon, William (Captain).
• notes: No copy known extant; advertised for sale in the Virginia Gazette, July 14, 1738, priced "two bits" stitched, "three bits" bound.
  Probably a reprint of the 1735 London edition of Burdon's Gentleman's Pocket Farrier, issued by Samuel Birt, Parks's London book supplier. Imprint may be earliest American edition of this title, as earliest known edition after this was published in Boston in 1776.
  
  
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