An Academy For Grown Horsemen

London: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe. Near Fine. 1809. Hardcover. One 5cm and one 10cm chip to top and bottom of spine. ; Hand written note laid in (initials, W. W. ) states: Academy for Grown Horsemen - twenty nine plates designed by Bunbury and etched by Rowlandson (as called for in the Directions to the Binder) .… Read more about this item

Mount Vernon, NY: William Edwin Rudge. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and chipped at spine extremities, lacks original slipcase, pages toned at edges and rippled at bottom edges.. 1929. Reprint. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of this 1787 humorous horse riding book. One of 400 numbered copies, of which this is number 326. Boards are covered in paper … Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1905. Hardcover. Spine label deteriorated. Slight spine lean. Some marking to boards. Spotting to page edges. Heavy foxing to half title page. Foxing to preliminary and final leaves. ; 120 pages + 27 colour plates. Red cloth boards with paper spine label. Page dimensions: 166mm x 99mm.… Read more about this item

William Edwin Rudge, 1929. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. #00/400cc of the regular edition. Facsimile of the 1787 edition. "Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumpling and Tumbling." Covers shelfworn.

Mount Vernon, Ny: William Edwin Rudge, 1929. Book. Illus. by Gordon Ross. Very Good. Full-Leather. Signed by the Illustrator. De Luxe edition limited to 100 copies this being number 43 with an illustration signed and hand colored by Gordon Ross.

Kessinger Publishing, 2005-08-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, 2005-08. Paperback. Good.

London: W. Baynes, 1808. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 3/4 Leather, quarto, xxiv + 36 pages. + 12 plates & xvii + 79 pages. + 17 plates. The plates are sepia engravings by Henry Bunbury, engraved by William Dickinson. Contemporary three-quarter red moroccan. The most desirable edition in very large type. Total of 29 plates. Covers edgeworn. First signature detached,… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co., 1905. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Good. Heavily faded at the spine. Pages lightly age-tanned. Previous owners' name to the first blank. . Hardback. Physically 6¾” x 4¼” (0.5 kg); (xvi) 120pp; In the Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books series; Contains: Colour plates [24]; Colour frontispiece; Title page vignette; || The book… Read more about this item

London: W. Nicholson for W. Baynes, 1808 . Leather. Very Good. 13.5" by 10.5". Geoffrey Gambado [Henry William Bunbury]. A lovely example of Henry William Bunbury's humorous work satirising horsemen, entertainingly illustrated throughout with caricatures by the author. The third edition of 'An Academy For Grown Horsemen', bound with 'Annals of Horsemanship', as is common with this work.Illustrated… Read more about this item

London: John Stockdale, 1812. The fourth edition of Academy for grown horsemen, bound together with the first edition of Annals of Horsemanship (both books dated 1812). 4to, xxviii, 36pp; xii, 81pp. 29 engraved plates. Half grey cloth, marbled paper-covered boards. Binding heavily rubbed, scattered foxing (light to medium) of plates; overall a good copy. The… Read more about this item

London: W. Nicholson for W. Baynes, 1808. Leather. Very Good. 14" by 10.5". Geoffrey Gambado [Henry William Bunbury]. Henry William Bunbury's humorous work satirising horsemen, entertainingly illustrated throughout with caricatures by the author. The third edition of 'An Academy For Grown Horsemen', with both volumes bound as one, as is common with this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece to… Read more about this item

Hardback. New.

London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1812. Hardcover. Good. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper, gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label; with 29 hand-colored plates. Boards scuffed along joints and edges; large chip at tail of spine; upper board starting; FFEP and half-title detached, laid-in. Some light foxing and offsetting, but generally nice and bright internally.… Read more about this item

1929. GAMBADO, Geoffrey. AN ACADEMY FOR GROWN HORSEMEN, containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling. Illustrated. (Facsimile edition of the W. Dickinson, London, 1737 work). Mount Vernon, NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1929. 1/400 copies. 4to., brown paper-covered boards. Touch of wear to extrenmes, moderately foxed throughout. Very good.

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Mount Vernon, NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1929. Facsimile of 1787 edition. Number 307 of a regular edition of 400 copies.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: W. Nicholson; W. Baynes, 1808. Leather. Very Good. 13" by 10.5". [Henry William Bunbury]. A humorous work poking fun at horsemen, entertainingly illustrated with caricatures by Henry William Bunbury. The third edition of 'An Academy For Grown Horsemen'.Bound by J. Sampson of York.Complete as two works bound in one.Illustrated with a frontispiece to each work, and a… Read more about this item

Paperback / softback. New.