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Leather. Condición: Very Good. A beautifully illustrated complete guide to the art of modern practical farriery in the late Victorian era, illustrated with vibrant chromolithographs. An immense and comprehensive guide to practical farriery, advising the reader on many different aspects of the veterinary art. Illustrated with a chomolithographic frontispiece, title page, ten colour plates, and twenty-six monochrome plates. Collated, lacking two chromolithographs. Written by W. J. Miles, with an essay on the diseases and management of cattle, sheep, and pigs by J. I. Lupton. Engraved by Benjamin Herring. Undated; dated 1890 via the University of Reading Library, with 'Winners of the great races' list extending to the year 1888. Rebacked, with endpapers renewed. The book forms a complete system of the veterinary art as practised at the Royal Veterinary College, London. Rebacked, in a half morocco binding with cloth covered boards, with endpapers renewed. Significant rubbing to morocco corners, with losses in these regions. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with instances of spotting throughout, most concentrated to pages facing plates. Lacking two chromolithographs. Very Good. Benjamin Herring (ilustrador). book.…