Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Youatt, William, 1776-1847
Title:
The horse / by William Youatt ; together with a general history of the horse ; a dissertation on the American trotting horse, how trained and jockeyed, an account of his remarkable performances ; and an essay on the ass and the mule, by J.S. Skinner, Assistant Post Master General, and editor of the Turf Register.
Edition:
A new edition, with numerous illustrations
Published / Created:
Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, for G.W. Gorton, 1847.

©1843.
Physical Description:
448 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
SF285.Y68 H67 1847
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
With a lithographed frontispiece drawn on stone by Augustus Kollner, after J.F. Herring; printed by Thomas Sinclair. Also with 58 wood engravings within the text.

With a large wood-engraved vignette on the title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary dark brown half morocco with marbled boards. Inscribed: Robert Perkins, Owls nest.
Subject Terms:
Horses. | Horses -- Diseases. | Horses -- Training. | Asses and mules. | Perkins, Robert -- Autograph. | Gorton, G. W. -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Lithographs -- 1847. | Wood engravings -- 1847.
Contributors:
Skinner, John S. (John Stuart), 1788–1851. Essay on the ass and the mule. | Herring, J. F. (John Frederick), 1795–1865, illustrator. | Sinclair, Thomas S., approximately 1805–1881, lithographer. | Kollner, Augustus, 1813–1906, lithographer. | Lea & Blanchard, printer.