1857 The Habit and the Horse; A Treatise on Female Equitation

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Fine Binding, First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Signed Binding

A wonderful copy of this guide to female equitation, in a stunning half crushed morocco signed binding from Henry Sotheran.

Illustrated with nine plates, including six tinted chromolithographs, from photographs by Herbert Watkins. Collated, complete.

Published simultaneously under this title, and the title 'The Ladies' Equestrian Guide'.

Mrs. J. Stirling Clarke offers a delightful instructional work, 'exclusively for the guidance of my own sex', for the aspiring female equestrian. Chapters include the gallop, trot, hunting, the position of the hands, and 'the lady's saddle and bridle'.

From the Ascott House library, owned by the de Rothschild family. The library was created following the conversion of the billiards room in 1936 and was predominantly filled with books collected by Anthony de Rothschild.