By Gervase Markham
London   The Woodstock Press
9" by 5.5" x, 93pp
A limited copy of this 17th-century book on horse racing, never before printed as its own separate work.
By Gervase Markham

1933 The Compleat Jockey: Or The most exact Rules and Methods to be observ'd in Training up of Race-Horses

London   The Woodstock Press
9" by 5.5" x, 93pp
A limited copy of this 17th-century book on horse racing, never before printed as its own separate work.
£30.00
: 0.5kgs / : 927Y15

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Description

Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Limited to five hundred numbered copies of which four hundred and eighty were for sale. 

This copy is number seventy-four. 

In the publisher's original quarter crushed morocco with marbled boards.

'The Compleat Jockey' is one of the earliest printed books on horse racing in English, first published in the 17 century. 

This is the first republication of it as a separate work, with the contents including the rules and methods in training and buying race-horses. 

Produced by Hugh J. Schonfield, a British Bible scholar and one of the founders and president of the Commonwealth of World Citizen (later named 'Mondcivitan Republic').

Condition

In the original quarter crushed morocco, with marbled boards. Externally, smart, with rubbing to the extremities, most notably to the spine. Damp stains and marks to the boards, with a pink ink mark to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting and a few scattered spots to the endpapers.

Good

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