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London: Longmans Green and Co., 1886. Book. Illus. by John Sturgess;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. (xii) 419 pp. Burgundy leather decorated in gilt on the panels and spine; marbled endpapers; headband. Edge and corner wear with a previous owner's name in pencil inside; hinges tight, gutters intact. Both titles in a single volume: RACING by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, and Mr W. G. Craven: the Chapters are: History of Horse Racing; Horses of Ancient Britain; The Progress of the Sport; History of the Jockey Club; Racing Officials: Clerk of the Course; The Starter; The Judge; The Clerk of the Scales; The Handicapper; The Stakeholder; The Stewards; Newmarket; Racing in the Provinces; Racing Servants: Old Style and New; Breeding; Treatment of Yearlings; Early Trials; Three Year Olds; Over a Distance of Ground; Upon Trainers; Upon Jockeys; and Betting. STEEPLE-CHASING by Arthur Coventry and Alfred E. T. Watson: the Chapters are: The Origin and Development of Steeple Chasing;…
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The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. Hunting
by Beaufort, the Earl of (and others)
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(London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906). 8vo; original pictorial cloth; pp. xii + 391 (+ adverts.); line drawings in text. Ex-library copy with label on front pastedown and code on spine; some hand-stamps and codes inside; scattered moderate foxing. Good condition. "The animal chosen as an example of what a hound should be is the Badminton Potentate . . . As a contrast to him the picture of a bad hound is given, his defects being purposely emphasised in order that they may at once strike the observer. Such a nightmare of a hound is not to be discovered in any hunting field, but by a course of injudicious breeding he might conceivably be produced. From head to stern he is all that a hound should not be. His shapeless head is joined by a thick neck to a shockingly clumsy pair of shoulders, which have no liberty of action about them. His legs are weak and crooked; he has the reverse of those 'round cat feet' which Somerville properly desires. He is flat-sided and slack in the loins; his stern is badly put on in the wrong place, and there is a total lack of muscle in his lean and long-drawn thighs." .
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RACING - and - STEEPLE CHASING - The Badminton Library
by Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire; Craven, Mr W. G.; Coventry, Arthur; Watson, Alfred E. T. (dedication by His Grace The Duke of Beaufort K.G.)
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The Manuscripts of the Duke of Beaufort, K.G., the Earl of Donoughmore, and Others. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty (Twelfth report: Appendix. Part IX)
by Somerset , Henry Charles Fitz Roy Somerset (the 8th Duke of Beaufort); Gurney, John Henry; Hulton, William Wilbraham Blethyn; Ketton, Robert William; George, John Luke (the 5th earl of Hely-Hutchinson Donoughmore); Aitken, George Atherton; Smith, Philip V
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London: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. g. Short quarto. 640 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering inside black border on spine. Scuffing to spine and exterior, otherwise book is in good condition. The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (abbreviated as the HMC) was established in 1869 "to make enquiry as to the places where manuscripts and private papers of historical interest were located and to report on their contents". The HMC's offices were located at Quality House, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, close to the old Public Record Office. The general public were able to visit Quality House during regular office hours to use the National Register of Archives, a computer database of archival references drawn from catalogues and published lists of manuscripts, useful for the study of British history, held in private hands and repositories in both the UK and overseas. In April 2003 the Keeper of Public Records became the sole…
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