Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, An academy for grown horsemen , 1929
- Title:
- An academy for grown horsemen : containing the completest instructions for walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, stumbling, and tumbling / by Geoffrey Gambado.
- Published/Created:
- New York : W.E. Rudge, 1929.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 38 p. : ill. ; 33 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsZ239.R8 B86 1929+ OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionAccessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9762254
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- "An academy for grown horsemen is the most riotously humorous rare book about horses, riders, and equitation that has come down to us. The first edition, of which this reprint is a facsimile was published in 1787 [by W. Dickinson, London]."--Introduction.
Introduction signed Owen Culbertson. February, 1929.
"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."--Colophon.
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 209 of the regular edition of 400 copies. Bound in publisher's original tan boards. - Subject Terms:
- English wit and humor.Horsemanship.
- Form/Genre:
- Photomechanical prints -- 1929.
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