Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Frankland, Robert, Sir, 1784-1849
Title:
Indispensable accomplishments / Billesdon Coplow.
Published / Created:
[London] : Published June 24, 1811, by H. Humphrey,
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, 6 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 28 x 36 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2011 78
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Billesdon Coplow is the pseudonym of Sir Robert Frankland.

Title page is engraved.

Henry Alken published a satiric response to this publication in 1815 titled "Qualified horses and unqualified riders."

Schwerdt, C.F.G.R. Hunting, hawking, shooting, I:186-187

Siltzer, F. Story of British sporting prints (2nd ed), 122

Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 158

Snelgrove, D. British sporting and animal prints, p. 75

BEIN JJn16 4: Bound with Alken, H.T. Qualified horses. London, 1815.

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in plain tan wrappers, stitched. Title and author written in manuscript on front wrapper. In green cloth folder; gold lettering on front cover and spine. Bookplates: Fitz Eugene Dixon; Moncure Biddle.
Contents:
Going along a slapping pace -- Topping a flight of rails ... -- Charing an ox-fence -- Going in and out clever -- Facing a brook -- Swishing at a rasper.
Subject Terms:
Fox hunting -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. | Hunting -- Great Britain. | Horse sports -- Great Britain. | Humphrey, H. -- Publisher. | Dixon, Fitz Eugene -- Bookplate. | Biddle, Moncure -- Bookplate. | Etching, Colored -- Specimens -- 1811.