An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions For Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling; Annals of Horsemanship: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments, and Experimental Accidents, Both Successful and Unsuccessful: Communicated By Various Correspondents

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 each work, and a total of twenty-four plates, being twelve plates plus a frontispiece to 'An Academy For Grown Horsemen', and fifteen plates plus a frontispiece to 'Annals of Horsemanship'.Collated, lacking one plate to 'Annals of Horsemanship'.An entertaining satirical work on horsemanship, enlivened with illustrated caricatures. This work departs from the typical use caricatures of political satire of the day, instead using the humour of the drawings to mock society, in particular the antics of horseman.With the bookplate of Francis Markham to the front pastedown.With original paper title labels for each volume laid down and bound in prior to each work.Illustrated by the author, Henry William Bunbury, a very popular caricaturist of the Georgian era. In a full calf binding, with blind tooling to boards. Fading to back strip, with rubbing to joints and board perimeters. Hinges lightly strained, but firmly held. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Tide marks and discolouration to plate perimeters, with pages generally clean and bright, with only the odd handling mark to page perimeters. Very Good