TATTERSALL, George.
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.
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Published one year after Tattersall's death, this is an updated version of a previous edition (1844) from the same publisher with a variant title, the earlier displaying portraits of the winning horses at Derby, Oaks, and St Leger covering the thirteen previous years, the present example covering the previous twenty. Tattersall, a sporting artist, had formerly published his illustrations under the pseudonym 'Wildrake'.
8vo (246 x 164 mm); 73 plates, 19 engravings in the text, ink inscription to verso of front endpaper addressed to 'G.W.H. Bowen from R.G.W. Herbert Sep. 2. 1894', armorial bookplate front pastedown; contemporary half calf with marbled boards, endpapers and edges, bound by Charles Edward Mudie, spine in six compartments with elaborate gilt design including equestrian details and a gilt brown morocco lettering piece, corners slightly rubbed, overall a near fine copy; vii, 386pp.
Huth, Works on Horses and Equitation, p.176.
8vo (246 x 164 mm); 73 plates, 19 engravings in the text, ink inscription to verso of front endpaper addressed to 'G.W.H. Bowen from R.G.W. Herbert Sep. 2. 1894', armorial bookplate front pastedown; contemporary half calf with marbled boards, endpapers and edges, bound by Charles Edward Mudie, spine in six compartments with elaborate gilt design including equestrian details and a gilt brown morocco lettering piece, corners slightly rubbed, overall a near fine copy; vii, 386pp.
Huth, Works on Horses and Equitation, p.176.
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The Pictorial Gallery of English Race Horses;
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