RIDING FOR LADIES. THE COMMON SENSE OF RIDING. WITH HINTS ON THE STABLE.

First Edition. Hardback. xii, [2], 378 pp. With sepia photographic frontispiece of the author with top hat and riding whip and facsimile signature, 13 plates, and 55 illustrations (most half-page) + 40 pages llustrated ads for books on hunting and the care of horses; and books on the food, culture, and wildlife of India, a specialisation of Thacker. Publisher's deep brown pictorial cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on upper board and spine. Nannie Lambert Power ODonoghue (1843 - 1940) was an Irish journalist, novelist, poet, and the first person to ride Irelands three most formidable steeplechase courses without a refusal or a mistake. She covers dress, tackle, mounting, seat, and all aspects of riding and care for horses, She also included stories of her own riding career and adventures in the Meath and Kildare foxhunting clubs. Decent sound clean very good indeed copy with one plate very slightly protruding and slightly nicked at edges with image unaffected. Splendid 1926 Bumpus / WPB bookplate of Julet Swire i,e. Juliet Richenda Barclay (b 1901), who married John Kidston Swire and lived at Hubbard Hall in Essex, which is shown in the upper vignette of the bookplate. The lower house is Fanshaws, near Hertford, the home of Juliet's parents. Foreground has small dog and books by Baring, Rupert Brooke, Flecker and Hardy.…