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.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for R. Ackermann 101, Strand, by J. Diggens, 14, St. Ann's Lane, 1st Jany. 1825.
Physical Description:
xxvii, [2], 30-75, [4], lxxx-xcix, [2], 102-201, [1] pages, [27] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 16 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsSF301 .B86 1825Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Aquatints by Thomas Rowlandson; after Henry William Bunbury.With an added engraved title page."Annals of horsemanship" (pages [lxxvii]-xcix, [101]-201) has separate title page.Date of publication from engraved title page.BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original red paper covered boards, with printed spine label. Two armorial bookplates: Beauchamp C. Urquhart of Meldrum and Byth; R.N.H Moore Stevens. The latter covers the bookplate of C.F.G.R. Schwerdt.
Subject Terms:
Horsemanship -- Humor. | Wit and humor -- Great Britain. | Horse sports -- Great Britain. | Horsemanship. | Horses -- Pictorial works. | Caricatures and cartoons -- England. | Horsemanship -- Social aspects -- Great Britain. | Urquhart, Beauchamp C. -- Bookplate. | Stevens, R.N.H. Moore -- Bookplate. | Schwerdt, C. F. G. R. (Charles Francis George Richard), 1862–1939 -- Autograph. | Bland, T. -- Autograph.