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Bunbury, Henry William (1750-1811) An Academy for Grown Horsemen. London: for Dickinson, Hooper, and Messrs. Robinsons, 1787.
First edition, folio, lacking B1 in the preliminaries, as usual (described in ESTC and in the preface itself),illustrated with hand-colored frontispiece and eleven additional full page hand-colored plates; bound in contemporary half straight-grain green morocco and marbled paper boards, worn, scuffed, some foxing and offsetting to text, 13 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.
Estimate $150-250
[pi]2, (title, first leaf of dedication),A2, B3 (lacking B1 as usual),second B-G4.
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