The Horseman's Week-End Book

1st edition hardcover in brown/tan linen cloth covered boards and photo-reproduced dust wrapper with light surface soil on beige boards. Spine ends bumped but not rubbed, tips still sharp. Undated circa 1947 published by SEELY SERVICE & Co. LONDON. A tight and bright book of 319 pages punctuated with charming black and white vignettes at each chapter heading and peppered through the text.Foxing on edge of page block but no soil, tears noted within. An impressive little volume, choc-a-block full of Stories, Musings, Prose, Veterinary Treatment and First Aid, First Aid for the Rider, In the Stable, Care of Tack, Care of Clothes, Buying a Horse, Farriery, Feeding, Fact & Fancy, The Horse in Poetry, Wise Saws & Modern Instances. Includes wise sayings and one liners you'll want to keep a few of these under your hat: "A Canter is a Cure for Every Evil". Benjamin Disraeli; "No Foot, No Horse; No Hock, No Hunter". Traditional: "Go Anywhere in England Where there are Natural, Wholesome Contented and Really Nice English People, and What do you always find That the Stables are the real center of the Household". George Bernard Shaw; "One White Foot, Buy a Horse, Two White Feet, Try a Horse, Three White Feet, Look Well About Him, Four White Feet, Do Without Him". Stable Rhyme, Now & Then, A Dictionary of Breeds, Concerning Colour, Do you Know (Consists of three pages of questions *all* horsemen should know including horse term definitions, average speed at which certain races are won, interesting equine & vintage sporting trivia such as: What is the correct name for a maker of bits, What is the question to which the following is the answer: "About as much as would fill two top hats, sir" and many other fascinating queries.

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Publisher: Seely Service & Co. Ltd.

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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