The Horse-Breeders' Handbook Containing a History of the Rise and Progress of The British Stud . During the Seasons 1895-6.

Together With the Tabulated Pedigrees, and Full Particulars of Thirty-Eight of the Most Famous Blood-Sires From Whom it has had its Origin, Also Introductory Comments on the Pedigrees and Performances of Ninety-Four of the Principal Stallions Advertised to Cover During the Seasons 1895-6 Etc. Embellished with Portraits of Stockwell, Bendigo, Cabin Boy, Donovan, Kendal, Orme, Ormonde, and St. Simon. Tall 8vo., pp: lxxix,216,[1], tissue guarded photo. frontispiece of 'Ormonde' & 7 photo. plates of horses as called for, black endpapers, original green cloth, gilt with gilt title and large gilt vignette of horse & gilt rule to front cover, spine gilt lettered, rubbed to tail of spine, otherwise bright & very good indeed. "Mr. Joseph Osborne, who wrote as "Beacon" in Bell's Life in London won the Grand National with Ab-del-Kader in 1851 and all his life he has taken an absorbing interest in the breeding of the thoroughbred. He writes of horses as far back as Harkaway (his pet horse) from personal knowledge of them. Mr. Osborne is an admitted authority on his subject, and although the figure-system school votes him out of date, all he writes is worth reading. There are some beautiful plates of well-known horses in the book, and extended pedigrees of nearly every prominent horse at the stud in England. The Horse-breeders' Handbook is very cheap at a guinea.".…