[Rarebooks] fa: HENRY BUNBURY - ACADEMY FOR GROWN HORSEMEN First Edition 1787

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Listed now, auction ending Sunday, October 21. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


[Henry William Bunbury:] An 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. By Geoffrey Gambado, Esq; Riding Master, Master of the Horse, and Grand Equerry to the Doge of Venice. London: Printed for W. Dickinson, No. 158, New Bond Street; S. Hooper, No. 212, Facing Bloomsbury Square, High Holborn; and Mess. Robinsons, Pater Noster Row, MDCCLXXXVII [1787]. FIRST EDITION. Tall 4to (34 cm) in modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards; vi, [3], vi-xx, 38 pp.; with twelve stipple engraved plates (complete). ESTC T18966.

Title-page repaired/strengthened at the foot; contents with intermittent modest toning (less so to the plates), a few occasional light spots and touches of soiling, else very clean and fresh, firmly and attractively bound. A handsome example of the first edition of this classic satirical survey of eighteenth-century horsemanship. Henry Bunbury (1750 - 1811), an artist and caricaturist who eschewed political subjects in favor of light-hearted social satire, is best remembered for his horse and sporting prints. Amiable, popular, and "a bit of a lad," he is described by the diarist Joseph Farington as "living most of his time a sotting life at Bury in Suffolk."