Ladies’ Equestrian Guide 1857
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Author: [Clarke, Mrs. Sterling]
Title: The Ladies’ Equestrian Guide; Or, The Habit & the Horse: A Treatise on Female Equitation.
Place Published: London
Publisher:Day & Son
Date Published: [1857]
Description:
Author: [Clarke, Mrs. Sterling]
Title: The Ladies’ Equestrian Guide; Or, The Habit & the Horse: A Treatise on Female Equitation.
Place Published: London
Publisher:Day & Son
Date Published: [1857]
Description:
[vii], 216pp + 3 ad pp. With six full-page chromolithographs (including frontispiece) plus three full-page black-and-white plates. (4to), original gilt-stamped pictorial cloth with beveled edges, expertly recased by Cory Reisbord. First Edition.
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An elaborate treatise and guide (size precludes calling it a "guidebook") that communicated "the equestrian 'savoir faire'" to the post-Austen crowd of British upper-class society. Scarce.
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Some wear and rubbing to cloth, corners worn; toning and scattered foxing to interior, some plates with light foxing to margins not affecting images; very good.
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Ladies’ Equestrian Guide 1857
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