An Academy For Grown Horsemen; Containing The Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, And Tumbling. The Annals Of Horsemanship: etc...by Geoffrey Gambado, pseudonym for (William Henry Bunbury)
by Rowlandson, Thomas (Illustrator)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Three quarter black morocco, dark purple cloth. Near fine
- Seller
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ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Vernor, Hood, And Sharpe; Longman, Hurst, Rees, And Orme; J. Walker; And J. Harris, 1809. Hardcover. Three quarter black morocco, dark purple cloth. Near fine. 140 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Twenty-nine hand colored engravings by Thomas Rowlandson. Not in ABBEY LIFE or TOOLEY. Originally published, London, 1788 with Bunbury's illustrations. He was a contemporary of Gillray and Rowlandson, "a designer of humorous subjects and caricatures.....he obtained the praise of Sir Joshua Reynolds." [see: BRYAN, Vol.I, p.209]. Also listed in the MELLON COLLECTION. Bookplate of Woods Price, marbled endpaper, offsetting of plates to text, otherwise generally clean in very solid binding.
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- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23702
- Title
- An Academy For Grown Horsemen; Containing The Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, And Tumbling. The Annals Of Horsemanship: etc...by Geoffrey Gambado, pseudonym for (William Henry Bunbury)
- Author
- Rowlandson, Thomas (Illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Three quarter black morocco, dark purple cloth. Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Vernor, Hood, And Sharpe; Longman, Hurst, Rees, And Orme; J. Walker; And J. Harris
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1809
- Keywords
- Sporting
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books; Sporting;
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