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Together With The Tabulated Pedigrees, and Full Particulars of Thirty-Eight of the Most Famous Blood-Sires From Whom it has had its Origin. Also Introductory Comments on The Pedigrees and Performances of One Hundred and Ten of the Principal Stallions Advertised to Cover During the Seasons 1895-6-7 Etc. Embellished with Portraits of Carbine, Galopin, Isinglass, Ladas, Stockwell, Bendigo, Cabin Boy, Donovan, Kendal, Orme, Ormonde, and St. Simon. Tall 8vo., pp: lxxix,216,lii,37, frontispiece tissue guarded photo. portrait of 'Isinglass' & 12 photo. portrait plates of horses as called for, including a different photo. portrait of Isinglass & with an extra plate, inscribed to head of title page in ink 'J. C. Osborne with Uncle Joes (sic) love and warmest good wishes. Joseph Osborne.', black endpapers, original green cloth, gilt with gilt title & large gilt vignette of a horse within gilt rule to front cover, spine gilt lettered, a little wear to spine, otherwise bright & very good indeed. "Mr. Joseph Osborne, who wrote as "Beacon" in Bell's Life in London won the Grand National with Ab-del-Kader in 1851 and all his life he has taken an absorbing interest in the breeding of the thoroughbred. He writes of horses as far back as Harkaway (his pet horse) from personal knowledge of them. Mr. Osborne is an admitted authority on his subject, and although the figure-system school votes him out of date, all he writes is worth reading. There are some beautiful plates of well-known horses in the book, and extended pedigrees of nearly every prominent horse at the stud in England. The Horse-breeders' Handbook is very cheap at a guinea.". Seller Inventory # 239
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