Item #88010 The Pictorial Gallery of English Race Horses, containing Portraits of all the Winners of the Derby, Oaks and St Leger Stakes during the Last Twenty Years, and a History of the Principal Operations of the Turf. George TATTERSALL.
The Pictorial Gallery of English Race Horses, containing Portraits of all the Winners of the Derby, Oaks and St Leger Stakes during the Last Twenty Years, and a History of the Principal Operations of the Turf
The Pictorial Gallery of English Race Horses, containing Portraits of all the Winners of the Derby, Oaks and St Leger Stakes during the Last Twenty Years, and a History of the Principal Operations of the Turf

The Pictorial Gallery of English Race Horses, containing Portraits of all the Winners of the Derby, Oaks and St Leger Stakes during the Last Twenty Years, and a History of the Principal Operations of the Turf

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1850.

Tall octavo (260 × 170 mm), viii, 386 pages plus 90 engravings 'chiefly on steel, after paintings by Cooper, Herring, Hancock, Alken, Hall, and others'.

Three-quarter green morocco and marbled papered boards, spine gilt in compartments (with the binder's stamp of Tout); top edge gilt; extremities slightly rubbed, with trifling wear to the top corners; minimal offsetting from a few plates; an excellent copy.

Provenance: the New Zealand collector and photographic historian Hardwicke Knight (1911-2008), with his bookplate.

Item #88010

Price (AUD): $900.00

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