Bibliothèque mondiale du cheval

« First and only edition of this English work on horsemanship which was published together with the English translation of Claudio Corte ’s Il Cavallerizzo , published in the same year and with the same publisher, and meant as a continuation of that work. After the title (verso blank), the dedication to ‘The right worshipfull Gentlemen Pensioners, M. Henrie Mackwilliam, and M. William Titzwilliams, dated 30 September 1583 and signed ‘G.B.’(= John Astley) (pp. (3)-(5), a preface to the ‘fellowes in Armes, hir Maiesties Gentlemen Pensioners; and to the gentle reader whatsoever’, by Henry Mackwilliam and William Fitzwilliams’who mention Astley as the author of the work and who call him the foremost horseman of England; this preface is dated Whitehall, 31 March 1584 (pp. (6)-(8)), follows the text in 9 chapters on pp. 1-68. Added is the treatise on the Chaine or Cavezzan, with the annotation : ‘This discourse following of the Chaine or Cavezzan, and likewise of the Trench & Martingale, is not the author’s worke, but the experienxe of another gentleman … which he hath briefelie written at the request of his inward freend. » Dejager (2014)