Book Details
| Author: | Osborne, Joseph ("Beacon"): |
| Title: | The Horse Breeders' Handbook: Embracing Ninety Four Tabulated Pedigrees, With Full Particulars of The Principal Sires Advertised to Cover During the Season 1889. |
| Published: | Epsom: Joseph Osborne, 1889. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 03 - Horses |
| Description: | Together With Full Pedigrees and Particulars of Thirty Six of the Most Celebrated Old Sires. lxxxix, 253 pp. Frontispiece portrait of 'Ormonde' and 1 other plate - 'Stockwell'. Occasional neat annotations in margins of text. Notes concerning horses on rear eps in pen and pencil. Newspaper clippings concerning sires pasted onto eps. ffep loose. Hinges cracked internally. A few spots of foxing on prelims and very occasional spot in text. Original dark green bevelled cloth boards with gilt lettering on front board and spine. Gilt vignette of horse on front board. Edge of spine split for about 2 inches at top of front board and for about 2 inches at bottom of rear board. Corners rubbed. Overall condition VG-. |
| Book Number: | #6916 |
| Price: | € 154.00 |
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