The Habit and the Horse; a Treatise on Female Equitation
by Clarke, Mrs. J. Stirling
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About This Item
London: Published by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen, 6, Gate Street, Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1860. Hardcover. 4to, renewed blue cloth spine with original blue cloth covers, with gilt title and illustration on upper cover, blind-stamped covers, a.e.g.; vi, 216 pp. , 9 plates, including six fine tinted lithographs. Plate identified as frontispiece bound opposite p. 17. First edition, later printing. Covering various aspects of riding side-saddle, the eighteen chapters are entitled Mounting, Dismounting, Positions of the Hands, the Leap, Critical Situations, Hunting, etc. Clarke wrote this work after recognizing a dearth of writing on equestrian techniques and practices for women on the saddle-a different technique than that used by men. The lithographs are after photographs by Herbert Watkins. Plates depict The Habit, Mounting, Dismounting, The Seat, Side Saddle on Horse's back, Malpositions, The Walk, The Canter, and The Circle.
REFERENCES: Podeschi 191 for the first edition of 1857.
CONDITION: Covers good; contents foxed; plates generally quite good.
REFERENCES: Podeschi 191 for the first edition of 1857.
CONDITION: Covers good; contents foxed; plates generally quite good.
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- The Habit and the Horse; a Treatise on Female Equitation
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- Clarke, Mrs. J. Stirling
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- London: Published by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen, 6, Gate Street, Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1860
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