Balancing & Shoeing Trotting & Pacing Horses by Wm. Moore - Original 1916 HC

Description

This book, titled on the cover as The Art of Shoeing Horses, was published by the Press of the Judson Printing Company in 1916.  This hardcover is 7-¾” high by 5-½” wide, it has 63 pages and illustrated with 2 plates.
This book is in Good condition, there is a small ink stain on the front covers, the covers are soiled and there is some wear to the spine ends, previous owner’s names on the front endpapers, there is foxing on some pages and a small tear in the margin of one plate, still a good copy in a tight binding.
From the Introduction:  “This is a plain, unvarnished and practical treatise on the art of balancing and shoeing trotting and pacing horses, unclouded by little known technical and scientific words and phrases, but written by the author Wm. J. Moore in his own every day words that can be easily understood by any horseman.
Mr. Moore, who has spent his life in the business of horse shoeing, was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1865, and later had charge of the Horse Shoeing Department of the Allen Farm at Pittsfield, Massachusetts for a period of over twenty years, and he is still so engaged at at Allen Farm.
Mr. Moore’s experience as a horse shoer dates from the time when he commenced work in a horse shoeing shop as an apprentice, at the age of 16 years. Since which time horse shoeing has been his sole occupation.
During this period of 35 years Mr. Moore has shod many noted trotting and pacing horses, and his long, varied and successful experience justifies the belief that no one is better qualified to write on this subject, and to offer advice in regard to it, than is he, and it is also the belief of those best qualified to judge that no work of this sort, heretofore written, is more entitled to the confidence of, and acceptance by, the people who own trotting and pacing horses, for whatever purpose they may be used.”