Book Details
| Author: | Osborne, Joseph ("Beacon"): |
| Title: | The Horse Breeders' Handbook: Containing a History of the Rise and Progress of The British Stud, Together with the Tabulated Pedigrees, and Full Particulars of Thirty Eight of the Most Famous Blood-Sires From Whom it has had Its Origin. |
| Published: | London: Edmund Seale, 1896. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 03 - Horses |
| Description: | Also Introductory Comments on the Pedigrees and Performances of One Hundred and Ten of the Principal Stallions Advertised to Cover During the Seasons 1895-6-7. Fourth edition. Embellished with Portraits of Carbine, Galopin, Isinglass, Ladas, Stockwell, Bendigo, Cabin Boy, Donovan, Kendal, Orme, Ormonde, & St. Simon. lxxix, 216 pp + Supplemental List of Sires for 1896 - lii, 37 pp. Previous owner's inscription on half title and rear of frontispiece. Text clean throughout. Hinges cracked internally. Original dark green bevelled cloth boards with gilt lettering on front board and spine. Gilt vignette of horse on front board. Split of about 2 inches at top edge of spine at rear and short split at bottom edge of spine on front. Two further small nicks in cloth along front edge of spine. Cloth at top and bottom of spine chipped and frayed. Corners bumped and well rubbed. Boards lightly faded in a few places. Internally binding tight. Overall condition VG. |
| Book Number: | #6919 |
| Price: | € 175.00 |
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