The Art Of Riding: A Textbook For Beginners and Others
Published by Scribners, New York, 1936
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB)
AbeBooks seller since December 12, 2003
Condition: Used - Fine
US$ 25.00
Quantity: 1 available
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Hardcover in green cloth with spine lettered in gilt. First American edition (using the British sheets). Fine, touch of offsetting to the endpapers. In a significantly faulted dust wrapper, head and foot of spine and top edge of rear panel chipped, closed tears elsewhere. xiv+ 109 pp. with 29 instructional photographic plates. Well known expert M.F. McTaggart offers an invaluable textbook to teach the art of riding. The 18 chapters of Part I include "The Seat", "Saddling and Bridling", "How to Mount and Dismount", "points in the Walk", Points in the Trot", "A Controlled Canter, " jumping" , "Children and Their Ponies", "The Side-Saddle". Part II covers early lessons, stable management , common ailments of the horse, localities of ailments and lameness, stable tricks, stable expressions, fitting saddlery, "vice" in horses. M.F. (Maxwell Fielding) McTaggart (1874-1936) was a career British Army officer and prominent showjumper. He was considered a leading figure in modernizing riding techniques and equine welfare.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Art Of Riding: A Textbook For Beginners and Others
- Author
- Lt. Col. M.F. McTaggart
- Publisher
- Scribners, New York
- Publication year
- 1936
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Sports
Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB)
Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
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