[Rarebooks] FS: Beautifully-Bound 1808 Horseman's Satire with Hand-Colored Plates

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

 From our new catalog-
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Gambado, Geoffrey [pseud. for William Henry Bunbury].  Academy for Grown 
Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, 
Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling. Illustrated with Copper 
Plates, and Adorned with a Portrait of the Author [with] Annals of 
Horsemanship: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments and 
Experimental Accidents, both Successful and Unsuccessful; Communicated 
by Various Correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado, Esq.

London; Printed by W. Nicholoson for W. Baynes: 1808.

William Henry Bunbury [1750-1811] was an English gentleman, army 
officer, court figure and popular caricaturist (popular in part because, 
unlike some other artists, the figures in his caricatures were not drawn 
in the likenesses of his acquaintances and friends). His work mainly 
reflected his own life and experiences and those of his circle- military 
life, the Grand Tour of Europe, and, in this case, horse-riding. He 
counted such notables as Joshua Reynolds, Oliver Goldsmith and David 
Garrick amongst his friends, and Horace Walpole is said to have compared 
him to William Hogarth.  Hardcover. 10.5"x13", xxiv + 36 pages, plus 12 
hand-colored plates [and] xvii + 81 pages, plus 17 hand-colored plates. 
Bound in full red leather with giltwork, marbled endpapers. Light soil, 
some light cover scuffs.  [37702]  $1,200

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