Chiffney Samuel (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. R. Woodman, Benjamin Marshall (illustrator). Reprint. London: Henry Angel, no date [1871?]. vi,[ii],127,[1]pp.,+[8]pp. of advertisements. Full title reads: 'Genius Genuine by Samuel Chifney, of Newmarket. A Fine Part in riding a Race, known only to the Author. Why there are so few good Runners; Or, Why the Turf Horses degenerate. A Guide to recover them to their Strength & Speed; As well as to train Horses for running, and Hunters and Hacks for Hard Riding. To preserve their Strength and their Sinews from being so often destroyed; With Reasons for Horses changing in their Running; Likewise a Full Account of the Prince's Horse Escape running at Newmarket on the 20th and 21st Days of October, 1791. With Other Interesting Particulars.' §Originally published in 1795, the book reached a second edition in 1804, which was succeeded by this later nineteenth version (tentatively dated 1871 from one of the advertisements). EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with a portrait frontispiece of the author (engraved by R. Woodman from a sketch by Benjamin Marshall), and five other black-and-white racing illustrations from late eighteenth and nineteenth century sources. Three of the illustrations - dated 1795, 1796, and 1804 - are published by J[ohn] Wheble and are seemingly culled from early numbers of The Sporting Magazine, which commenced publication under his editorship in 1792. Original diced calf, decorated with a double gilt line around edges, top edge gilt, sympathetically professionally rebacked in similar style. A few slight rubs or marks to covers, preliminaries and last leaves slightly foxed, but a very good copy, handsomely and neatly bound.

[title cont.]: A guide to recover them to their strength and speed: as well as to train horses for running, and hunters and hacks for hard riding. To preserve their strength, and their sinews from being so often destroyed; with reasons for horses changing in their running. Likewise a full account of the prince's horse escape running at Newmarket on the 20th and 21st days of October 1791. With other interesting particulars.First edition. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), 170-pages. Contemporary full tan calf, sides ruled in gilt, gilt race horses blocked to upper cover, a jockey to the rear, rebacked in calf retaining most of the original backstrip blocked in gilt with jockey's caps; corners rubbed. Internally lacking free endpapers, some foxing and browning. Bound without the half-title. Very rare.