1895 The Horse-Breeders' Handbook Containing a History of the Rise and Progress of the British Stud, Seasons 1895-6

Description

Illustrated

A 1895 edition of this work, covering seasons 1895 to 1896, in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front board.

Bookplate of Richard Green to the front free endpaper. Previous owners' ink inscriptions to the half title page, one dated 1895. Four newspaper cuttings tipped in to the verso of the half title page and to the verso of the frontispiece, showing the pedigree of Rockdove (1891), Laveno (1892), Teufel (1893) and Canterbury Pilgrim (1893). Six cuttings tipped in to the verso of the rear free end paper and two letters to tipped in to the verso of the last page.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven further plates, four retaining their tissue guards. Collated, complete.

The Horse-Breeder's Handbook for the seasons 1895 to 1896 by Joseph Osborne, who often wrote under the pen name "Beacon" and was a journalist for Bell's Life of London. Osborne was considered an authority of the breeding of thoroughbreds.