[Rarebooks] FS: 1808 William Bunbury Horseman Riding Satire - Color Plates & Full Leather

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

“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.”

By Geoffrey Gambado [pseud. for William Henry Bunbury]. Published in 
London; Printed by W. Nicholoson for W. Baynes in 1808. 3rd edition.

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. A little minor scuffing to the covers, 
some very light scattered internal soil, but overall clean and nice, 
with a tight binding. $1,200

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