An Academy For Grown Horsemen; Containing The Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, And Tumbling. The Annals Of Horsemanship: etc...by Geoffrey Gambado, pseudonym for (William Henry Bunbury)

London: Vernor, Hood, And Sharpe; Longman, Hurst, Rees, And Orme; J. Walker; And J. Harris, 1809. Hardcover. Three quarter black morocco, dark purple cloth, rebacked. Near fine. 140 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Twenty-nine hand colored engravings by Thomas Rowlandson. Not in ABBEY LIFE or TOOLEY. Originally published, London, 1788 with Bunbury's illustrations. He was a contemporary of Gillray and Rowlandson, "a designer of humorous subjects and caricatures.....he obtained the praise of Sir Joshua Reynolds." [see: BRYAN, Vol.I, p.209]. Also listed in the MELLON COLLECTION. Bookplate of Woods Price, marbled endpaper, offsetting of plates to text, otherwise generally (truncated) clean in very solid binding. (Inventory #: 23702)