An academy for grown horsemen : containing the completest instructions for walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, stumbling, and tumbling : illustrated with copper plates, and adorned with a portrait of the author / by Geoffrey Gambado, Esq., riding master, master of the horse, and Grand Equerry to the Doge of Venice.

Accession number

PML 145639.1

Creator

Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.

Published

London : Printed by W. Nicholson, Warner Street, for W. Baynes, 54, Paternoster Row, 1808.

Credit line

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes

Signatures: [a]² b-f² B-K².
Illustrated with 12 stipple engravings printed in sepia, after Bunbury.
Individual plates signed: H. Bunbury Esq. delin. ... W. Dickinson excudit".

Description

xxiv, 36 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. (stipple engraving) ; 33 cm

Inscriptions/Markings

Inscription in ink by former owner on t.p. beside the printed name of the pseudonymous author, "Henry Wm. Bunbury see Gentleman's Mag. May 1811".

Provenance

Bookplate of R. King Meade King; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Binding

1/2 roan.

Classification

Book

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