The Racing Calendar for the Year 1856. Races to Come, Volume the Eighty-Fourth
by Charles and James Weatherby
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Doncaster, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Racing Calendar; printed by Reynell and Weight, London, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Small chunky volume with full leather binding, missing spine labels, gilt decoration on edges, bumped corners. Text block is detached from covers, front pasted end-paper is missing, first gathering is detached and water-stained Text block binding is sound. Rear end-papers are darkened. First few pages of second gathering are foxed but otherwise pages are clean. Previous owner's name on title-page. Contents are: Queen's Plate Articles; List of Royal Plates, with their Conditions; Form of a Certificate of having won a Queen's Plate; Rules Concerning Horse-Racing in General; Rules and Orders of the Jockey Club; Adjudged Cases; Colours worn by the Riders; Lengths of the Newmarket and other Courses; Explanation of the Abbreviations Used in this Book; Races to Come; Index to Horses engaged; Stallions for 1852; List of Members of the Jockey Club; Index to Closing of Stakes. lxvi, 426. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57422081034. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service..
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- Bookseller
- Bailgate Books Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57422081034
- Title
- The Racing Calendar for the Year 1856. Races to Come, Volume the Eighty-Fourth
- Author
- Charles and James Weatherby
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Racing Calendar; printed by Reynell and Weight
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1856
- Keywords
- BZDB4 Equestrian; countryside, farming, field sports, agriculture, horticulture; Sport. Unbranded Charles and James Weatherby The Racing Calendar for the Year 1856. Races to Come, Volume the Eighty-Fourth
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sport; Equestrian; countryside, farming, field sports, agriculture, horticulture;
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- Edges
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- Foxed
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- Fair
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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