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[Broadhurst, J].
A Comparative View of the Form and Character of the English Racer and Saddle-Horse During the Last and Present Centuries.
Publisher: Thomas Hookham, London;
Date of Publication: 1836
Stock Code: 4865
Quarto, pp.,v, [1], 155, [1]. With 18 superb numbered lithographed plates printed by Hullmandel after Stubbs, Seymour, Marshall, Chalon & Cooper as called for; plates printed on India paper and mounted, each with tissue-guard. Topics covered include "great tasks performed by racehorses", "artificial qualities, e.g. speed" and "our present racers". Contemporary bottle-green cloth with paper title label to spine. Cloth a little rubbed and stained to rear with bumped upper corner, and minor wear to corners and spine tips. Minor sporadic foxing largely confined to title-page, tissue-guards & plate margins; 1-inch tear to edge of mount to plate XVI (plate unaffected) and minor nicks to margins of 2 other plates; corner crease to title-page and tissue-guard of frontis. Loder, 375. £875.00