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Description
[HORSES]
PINEL (Honoré)
The Sportsman’s ABC. Coats and markings. Faults. Breeds. 1869. 72 plates.Paris, Librairie Ducrocq, 1869, quarto, red publisher’s percaline, title embossed in gold, gilt edges, unpaginated (three sections, each on a separate theme, bound into a single volume). The author states: “The alphabetical format we have adopted serves a dual purpose: 1° To make it easier for children to study horses, as the dictionary format is better suited to those whose attention spans are short, or who can only study in short bursts; 2° to provide the enthusiast with an explanatory glossary of the common terms used by those involved with horses.” A series of three booklets bound into a single volume, each in alphabetical format. The first is devoted to ‘Coats and markings’, the second to ‘Conformation, defects and disqualifying faults’, and the third to ‘Breeds’. Text on the left-hand page, and a colour chromolithographic illustration on the right-hand page. Percaline binding, partly discoloured. With 72 chromolithographic plates.
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ID: 89135246
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