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THE LADIES' EQUESTRIAN GUIDE; OR, THE HABIT AND THE HORSE: A TREATISE ON FEMALE EQUITATION.
by CLARKE, MRS. STIRLING
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Moderate Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Day and Son, 1857. Bevelled boards. Gilt borders, vignette, and lettering front cover. Rear cover in blind-stamp. Corners worn. Spine extremities frayed. Marginal water-stain to frontispiece and top corner of plates, none affecting the image. Six full-page color plates and three diagrams in black and white. Frontispiece of "The Habit" protected by a tissue-guard which has browned. The lovely illustrations were lithographed by Messrs. Day and Son, from photographs by Robert Watkins. Other plates include",Mounting, Dismounting, The Seat, Side Saddle on Horse's back, Malpositions, The Walk, The Canter, and The Circle. Wide margins with double line bordering. This book was also published under the title, "The Habit and the Horse" in 1857 and 1860. 216pp. + 3 pages of adverts. See photos.. First Edition. Purple Embossed Cloth. Moderate Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket. Quarto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014245
- Title
- THE LADIES' EQUESTRIAN GUIDE; OR, THE HABIT AND THE HORSE: A TREATISE ON FEMALE EQUITATION.
- Author
- CLARKE, MRS. STIRLING
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Moderate Corner and Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Day and Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1857
- Size
- Quarto
- Keywords
- Horsemanship, Horses, Riding, Female Equitation, Equestrian
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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