Annals of horsemanship: containing accounts of accidental experiments, and experimental accidents, both successful and unsuccessful: communicated by various correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado

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With seventeen Hand-Coloured Caricatures of Riders and Methods of Riding Large octavo, xvii, [1, blank], 95, [1, blank] pp, seventeen hand coloured stipple-etched plates (including frontispiece) by W.P. Carey after Bunbury. Early twentieth century red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (stamp signed in gilt on the rear turn in), neatly rebacked, with original spine laid down, covers decoratively bordered in gilt, spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, board edges ruled in gilt, turn-ins decoratively tooled in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. (244*150 mm). An Excellent and Very Tall Copy. There was an edition published in London in 1791 and again in 1796, this being the first Dublin edition, 2 bookplate to fpd (H Edward Newton. Title continues: together with most instructive remarks thereon, and answers thereto, by that accomplished genius. And now first published, by the editor of the Academy for grown horsemen. Amateur artist and caricaturist Henry William Bunbury drew chiefly in pencil