With American Interest

(FARRIERY). WILSON, YORICK. The Gentleman's Modern System of Farriery, or Stable Directory; a Concise Treatise on the Various Diseases of Horses, Their Symptoms, and Most Humane Methods of Cure...with useful observations on the breeding and training of Colts; Hints to the purchasers of Horses; General directions for Riding, and using a Horse on a Journey; Stable Management, &c. Trenton, [N.J.]: Printed and Published by James Oram, 1811. Second American edition. 12mo. 95 pp. Contemp. boards, crudely rebacked. $300.00

Henderson, Early American Sport, p. 26, the 1810 edition only. S & S 24469, recording only the New Jersey Historical Society copy. Page 91-92, with a wonderful eagle vignette, adds "Great and Valuable American Discovery to Break Horses," the discovery of "a New Englandman, and made known in Trenton, in the Spring of 1811." The method is to make the horse giddy and by stopping its ears with cotton and turning it briskly around. After that the cotton is removed and the horse can be freely mounted or handled.