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A General System of Horsemanship in All Its Branches:

Containing a Faithful Translation of That Most Noble & Useful Work of His Grace

By William Cavendish {Duke of Newcastle}

A Limited Facsimile Edition & Published by Nottingham Court Press, London 1980, Originally Published in 1743

A Limited Edition of 500 Copies Only & Originally Published in 1743.

This Copy is Number 9 & Signed by the Duke of Beaufort.

Complete in Two Volumes & Bound Into One Book With Separate Title Pages.

Original Full Leather Binding by W. T. Morrell of London With Gilt Decorated Front & Rear Boards, Gilt Inner Dentelles, Housed Within the Original Cloth Bound Clamshell Box With the Original Suede Lining, Numerous Full Page Illustrations & Illustrations Among Text, Printed on Specially Made Paper From Abbey Mill in Wales.

Book Measures Approx 18 X 12 Inches

Few Minor Marks to Clamshell Box, Few Very Minor Marks to Leather Boards With a Small Minor Scuff to One Compartment on Spine, Name & Date to Front Endpaper, Bookplate of Nottage Court to Inner Front Board [Listed Building in Wales]

Overall a Near Fine Copy

Heavy Book.

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