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)

Beschreibung

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. Three quarter black morocco, dark purple cloth, rebacked. Near fine.

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Titel

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)

Verlag

Vernor, Hood, And Sharpe; Longman, Hurst, Rees, And Orme; J. Walker; And J. Harris, London

Erscheinungsjahr

1809

Einband

Hardcover

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