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An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling
by Gambado, Geoffrey, pseud. [Henry William Bunbury]
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- Seller
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Mount Vernon, NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1929. Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1787. Hardcover (imitation leather, gilt-stamped). Fine/fine. Bunbury, H.; Ross, Gordon. xx, 38p + 12 pls. by Bunbury and 2 additional pls. by Gordon Ross, 1 in color and signed in pencil. One of 100 deluxe copies (unnumbered; out of series). Presentation copy from artist Owen Culbertson to Churchill Newcomb, 1929. With Culbertson's bookplate. Laid in: 2 handwritten notes from Culbertson to Newcomb, and a typed list of an exhibition of Culbertson's collection of sporting art. In original plain jacket and slipcase. A fine-press reprint of this classic of equestrian humor, with an introduction by Culbertson. Equestrian mishaps and accidents are much the same today, and a close reading also reveals a good deal about British horsemanship of ca. 1800. (For this and other mock horsemanship manuals, see Monica Mattfeld's recent book Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship.) A beautiful copy, good for a gift. (Wells 1214 cites the regular edition of 400 copies).
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- Bookseller
- Robin Bledsoe, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30921
- Title
- An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling
- Author
- Gambado, Geoffrey, pseud. [Henry William Bunbury]
- Illustrator
- Bunbury, H.; Ross, Gordon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (imitation leather, gilt-stamped)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1787
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Edwin Rudge
- Place of Publication
- Mount Vernon, NY
- Date Published
- 1929
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Robin Bledsoe, Bookseller
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