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Published by W. E.Rudge, New York, 1929
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint of the first edition, 1787. xx, 38 pages : illustrations. "One hundred copies of a de luxe edition with an illustration hand colored and signed by Gordon Ross and four hundred copies of a regular edition were printed bound at the printing house of William Edwin Rudge at Mount Vernon, N.Y., 1929." This is Regular edition number 162. Paper covered boards reproduce wear to the edition of which this is a copy. Wear to this volume includes rounding of corners and bumping to head and foot of spine; contents very good. Lacks slipcase. Additional postage will be required for shipment outside the United States. 810 grams.
Published by William Edwin Rudge, Mount Vernon, Ny, 1929
Seller: Mark Henderson, Olathe, KS, U.S.A.
Signed
Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Gordon Ross (illustrator). De Luxe edition limited to 100 copies this being number 43 with an illustration signed and hand colored by Gordon Ross. Signed by the Illustrator. Book.
Published by The Georgian Press, Westport, CT, 1930
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Georgian Press (illustrator). 4to. quarter leather, marbled paper-covered boards, paper-covered slipcase. 35, (3) pages. Limited to 235 copies. Dedication, author's preface, editor's comment. Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson, reproduced from the original editioni (London, 1809). Richard Ellis, typographer, and John F. MacNamara, pressman. Bottom edge of slipcase damaged. quarter leather, marbled paper-covered boards, paper-covered slipcase.
Published by William Edwin Rudge, Mount Vernon, NY, 1929
Seller: Robin Bledsoe, Bookseller (ABAA), Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Bunbury, H.; Ross, Gordon (illustrator). 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). Hardcover (imitation leather, gilt-stamped) Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1787.
Published by The Georgian Press, Westport, CT, 1930
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Georgian Press (illustrator). 4to. quarter leather, marbled paper-covered boards, paper-covered slipcase. 35, (3) pages. Limited to 235 copies. Dedication, author's preface, editor's comment. Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson, reproduced from the original editioni (London, 1809). Richard Ellis, typographer, and John F. MacNamara, pressman. quarter leather, marbled paper-covered boards, paper-covered slipcase.
Published by Dublin : Printed for William Jones No. 86 Dame-Street, 1792
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
[title continued]: Author of The academy for grown horsemen; Together With Most Instructive Remarks Thereon, and Answers Thereto, by That Accomplished Genius. And now first published, by the editor of The academy for grown horsemen. Illustrated with cuts by the most eminent artists.Engraved frontispiece and 16 plates.Tall 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 inches), pages: (2):xvii:95, contemporary full tan calf, rubbed, the backstrip very much so, browning to endpapers and recto of frontispiece and verso of last leaf and prelims. Contemporary name stamp at base of title. Early newspaper cutting pasted to blank lower half of last leaf of text Generally clean within. In need of re-backing and priced to allow for such.
Published by London: W. Dickinson; and Messrs. Robinson,, 1787
Seller: Antiquariat libretto Verena Wiesehöfer, Ahlen, NRW, Germany
Book First Edition
VI; XX; 38 p.; 12 Kupfertafeln. 4° (36,5 x 26 cm); Pappbd. der Zeit m. montiertem Rückenschild - Erste Ausgabe dieser mehrfach aufgelegten humoristischen-satirischen Anweisungen für mondäne Reiter, illustriert von dem populären Karikaturisten Henry Bunbury (1750 - 1811), der auch für den Verfasser des Werks gehalten wird (alternativ zu Francis Grose, Herausgeber von "A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue"). Mit 12 in Punktierstich ausgeführten Tafeln in "Bister" (braun nuancierten Farbtönen). Eine der Tafeln (als Frontispiz) stellt den angeblichen Verfasser dar, der im Titel als "Riding Master, Master of the Horse, and Grand Equerry (Stallmeister) to the Doge of Venice" firmiert. Titel einiger Tafeln: How to ride a Horse upon three legs; How to lose your way; How to be run away with; How to ride genteel and agreeable down Hill; A Bit of Blood; How to stop your Horse at Pleasure. - Der schlichte Einband berieben, angestaubt u. etw. wasserfl., das dünne Bezugspapier hinten an einigen Stellen abgeschabt, Ecken u. Kanten stärker bestoßen. Das kräftige Papier sehr ungleichmäßig beschnitten bzw. unbeschnitten, Ränder der überstehenden Seiten randgebräunt u. m. einigen kleinen Läsionen. Die ersten Bl. stark gebräunt u. stockfleckig, Papier des gedruckten Teils innen überwiegend sauber, an den Rändern tlw. gebräunt. Die Tafeln unterschiedlich gebräunt u. stockfleckig. Kräftiger, breitrandiger Druck. - Versand als versichertes Paket zu 7,50 (D); ins Ausland bitte anfragen. - Innerhalb der EU bitte keine Bestellungen über "Externen Zahlungsdienstleister"! A/O3 - Please ask for detailed information in English / Demandez des détails en francais s.v.p. - Bitte beachten: Die Bearbeitung von Bestellungen ist erst ab dem 02.05. 2024 wieder möglich! Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 900.