Dressage Riding

SUBTITLED : `A Guide for the Training of Horse and Rider '. The first 57 pages of this volume deal with the Campagne School . The last with Haute Ecole. 113 pages total. (Translated from the German.) The latter is ONLY for those riders and horses who have PERFECTED the former. The Spanish Riding School in Vienna is the world's best current example of Haute Ecole. Part one touches on the lunge, figure-eights, flexion, flying changes, balance, seat, and striking-off. Part two deals with Piaffe, Passage, Levade, Courbette and Capriole for example. Text assisted by both b/w photos and b/w drawings. Horses you might remember include : Tolerant, Teresina, Burgsdorff, and Wotan. Cond : Boards are brown with gilt lettering -spine only. D.J. is missing. End-papers are white. Volume square and tight, spine fine. No points of wear. Clean, no names, marks, creases, nor tears. Giftable reference !! Quote (p. VIII) (Introduction) : " In 1925 I made up my mind to build up in Berlin a scheme for professionally training horses and riders. My work was rewarded for many years by the numerous sucesses achieved by my pupils and myself at all the big shows in Germany and also in international ._._._. ." Size: Octavo.…