The Horse Breeders' Handbook. Containing Introductory Comments on the Pedigrees and Performances of Seventy-Eight of the Principal Stallions Advertised to Cover in Great Britain and Ireland During the Season 1898, Etc.

Osborne, Joseph. ("Beacon").

Published by London: Edmund Seale. [1898]. Price One Guinea.

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Together with A History of the Rise and Progress of The British Stud Including The Tabulated Pedigrees and Full Particulars of Fifty of the Most Famous Blood-Sires From Whom It Has Had Its Origin. Tall 8vo., pp: c,1-161,lxxix,1-89, tissue guarded photo frontispiece of 'Persimmon' & photo portrait of Joseph Osborne plus photo portraits of 19 horses, complete as called for, black chalked endpapers, original green bevelled cloth with gilt title & large gilt vignette of a horse within gilt rule to front cover, spine gilt lettered within gilt rule, slight wear to spine, otherwise bright & very good indeed. Embellished with Portraits of Benvenuto, Cabin Boy, Carbine, Carnage, Donovan, Endurance, Galopin, Greenlawn, Isinglass, Kendal, Kilwarlin, Ladas, Oakwood, Orme, Persimmon, St. Frusquin, St. Simon, Savile, Stockwell, and Worcester.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Horse Breeders' Handbook. Containing Introductory Comments on the Pedigrees and Performances of Seventy-Eight of the Principal Stallions Advertised to Cover in Great Britain and Ireland During the Season 1898, Etc.
• Publisher: London: Edmund Seale. [1898]. Price One Guinea.
• Binding: Hardcover