HORSES
HORSES
Horse History
Horses
in training 1910. Embracing all horses engaged in stakes on American courses, including all two-year-olds registered with the Jockey Club. New York: H.A. Buck, 1910. 8vo. [242] pp.
• Directory of horses and owners in 1910, along with the rules of racing and a number of advertisements for different jockey clubs and racing associations.
• Publisher's cloth wrappers, front cover with gilt-stamped title; both covers separated and scraped, with cloth lost over spine. Internally clean save for a few pencilled marks. (12425)
“What Is Dis, A Chin-Chin to a Show Down?” McHugh, Hugh. Out for the coin. New York: G.W. Dillingham Co., 1903. 8vo. 107, [1], xx (adv.) pp.; 6 plts.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. Binding: Publisher's tan cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in black and white; designed by Thomas Watson Ball and with his “B” cipher. The cover depicts a richly dressed man at a tickertape machine. Top edge gilt.
• Bound as above; black stamping showing light wear: a solid, clean copy. (22208)
Attractively
Bound — THREE Fore-Edge Paintings (ALL HORSE-Y)
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir. The complete works...with an original memoir, and anecdotes of the author. In three volumes. London: Pr. by Howlett & Brimmer for Thomas M'Lean, 1824. 3 vols. 8vo (16.2 cm, 6.4"). I: xcvii, [1], 219, [1] pp. (lacking frontis.). II: iv, 303, [1] pp. III: [4], 272 pp.
The Fore-Edges: Each volume bears a different fore-edge painting with a hunting theme, the hunters in traditional "pink" coats, with a pack of brown-and-white hounds either gamboling around the horses' legs or coursing ahead in the gently rolling terrain.
These proved particularly tricky to photograph, but here's the trio:
• Hinges cracked across silk, inside, but all holding; vol. I frontispiece lacking. Some wear at heads, tails, and corners, nicely refurbished; occasional light spots of foxing.
Attractive.
Fashionably
Bred Horses
from a Famous
California
Stable
Rose, Leonard
J. Catalogue of Rosemeade Stock Farm. San Francisco : Pr. by Britton
& Rey, 1888. 8vo. 108, [4] pp.; 2 plts.
This substantial booklet is extremely uncommon; OCLC does not identify any holdings.
• Stapled in original printed paper wrappers; covers darkened with spots of minor staining, spine paper chipped. (23746)
Remembrances of
Idyllic Youth Sassoon, Siegfried. Memoirs of a fox-hunting man. New York: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club, 1981. Tall 8vo. Frontis., [8], 9–284 pp.; 8 plts.
Paul Hogarth illustrated the book with black-and-white vignettes which open and close each chapter, and eight full-page color wash drawings. John Lewis designed the book choosing a monotype Walbaum font. The binding is quarter red calf over light-brown buckram sides, gilt-lettered on the spine, and gilt-stamped on the front cover with a design of various fox-hunting implements; tucked away at the lower edge of the back cover is a gilt design of a sly-looking fox in full trot.
This edition is limited to 1600 copies and is signed by the artist on the colophon.
• Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 506. Binding as above, in original glassine wrapper and slipcase; wrapper with tears at bottom edge. Slipcase with slight bumping at inner front edge. A fine copy, in a near fine slipcase. (22104)
“Horse-Hoing” — 6NIFTY Fold-Out PlatesTull, Jethro. The horse-hoing husbandry: Or, an essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation.... London: Pr. for the author, and sold by G. Strahan, T. Woodward, A. Miller, J. Stagg, and J. Brindley, 1733. Folio (30.2 cm, 11.875"). [4], x, 200 pp.; pp. [201–202]. 6 fold-out plts. [bound with] Tull, Jethro. A supplement to the essay on horse-hoing husbandry.... London: Pr. for and sold by the author, and may be had at Mr. Mills's, London, at John Aitkins's, Esq, in Edinburgh, and at the Bear in Hungerford, Berks., 1736. Folio. pp. [203–205], 206–69; [1] pp. 
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six beautifully engraved, pleasantly intelligible plates (“W. Thorpe, sculp.) illustrate some of Tull’s inventions, including improved plows and drills for planting seeds.
• Goldsmiths’-Kress 7065; ESTC T81915 and N24607. Contemporary calf with remnants of gilt; dry, flaking, and partially gone to red, with some chips to edges, corners, and spine tips; old repairs to joints. Remnants of bookplate on front pastedown. Old water/mildew damage to lower margins, occasionally making its way a bit into text; several leaves repaired, long since. Plates generally quite clean and always pleasing, with faintest waterstaining to lower portion of plate 6 (only). All edges speckled red.
Popular Fiction by a Victorian "Sporting" Novelist —
Reading for Country-House Mornings
Whyte-Melville, G[eorge] J[ohn]. Holmby House: A tale of Old Northamptonshire. London: John W. Parker and Son, 1860. 8vo. 2 vols. I: Frontis., [3] ff., 325 pp. II: [2] ff., 344 pp., 3, [1] pp. (ads). 
• Publisher's cloth. Signatures split from bindings at several places — one more reading and this will very likely achieve "binding now a portfolio" status, though it will be readable and shelvable even then.
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