THOMPSON, Charles.
Rules for bad Horsemen, addressed to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. … the second Edition, with a Preface and Additions.
London, J.Robson, 1763.
Small 8vo, pp. [2], viii, 84; woodcut initials and ornaments; without preliminary advertisement; an excellent copy in recent calf-backed boards with non-pareil marbled sides, spine gilt-ruled in compartments with gilt red morocco lettering-piece in one.
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Rules for bad Horsemen, addressed to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. … the second Edition, with a Preface and Additions.
Second edition of a short treatise on riding, first published the previous year. Evidently successful, the text underwent six editions by the end of the century with two pirated Dublin versions, and was reprinted again in 1830.
ESTC lists only one library in the UK (BL) and just three in North America (Huntington, Stanford, Virginia). No first or second editions have appeared at auction since 1945.
ESTC T97664; cf. Mellon 56 and Dingley 626 (1762 edition).
