A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE FORM AND CHARACTER OF THE ENGLISH RACER AND SADDLE-HORSE DURING THE LAST AND PRESENT CENTURIES. This item is unavailable.A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE FORM AND CHARACTER OF THE ENGLISH RACER AND SADDLE-HORSE DURING THE LAST AND PRESENT CENTURIES

Rebound in gilt-tooled Tuscancalfskin, spine with raised bands and gilt-lettered black leather label, with marbled and fresh endpapers with original front and rear free endpaper preserved, in a custom matching clamshell box; original green cloth-covered boards and backstrip with paper label preserved in a custom matching red cloth folder; all presented together in a green box. 4to; [i-iii], iv-v, [i], [1]-155, [1]pp. Complete with (18) mounted lithographed plates of portraits of race horses by Gauci and Chalon, numbered and lettered 1-10, G, and 11-17 with a description facing each plate. Unusual to this copy, the plates are beautifully hand-colored. Binding documentation enclosed, though lacking tissue gards.