[Horses]. HUMFREY, Captain J.

The Steeplechase Horse. How to select, train, and ride him [The Steeple-Chaser by John Humfrey (spine title)]

Calcutta, Thacker, Spink, and Co., 1879 [first edition].

Octavo, [vi], 179 pages.

Original red cloth lettered and decorated in black; cloth rubbed, moderately flecked and a little inkstained; edges a little splash-marked (affecting slightly the edges of the endpapers); overall, a very good copy.

Provenance: E.W. Hawker, with his signature on the front flyleaf; occasional light marginal pencilling is presumably in his hand. Edward William Hawker (1850-1940), barrister, grazier, politician and metallurgist, was born at Bungaree (near Clare), the property established by his father George in 1841. In 1895 he inherited a large estate at East Bungaree ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').

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