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GAMBADO, Geoffrey.
The Academy for Grown Horsemen.
Gambado's droll classic on horsemanship features Bunbury's humorous caricatures. A “singulier ouvrage” (Brunet). Henry William Bunbury was one of the most beloved English humorists of his day. By turning his back on controversial political caricature, Bunbury made a name for himself as a subtle and ingenious social satirist. In this vein, he mocked many of the fashions and follies of the age depicting scenes of university life and, in the present work, the antics of horsemen. Lowndes calls this work a "lively and entertaining jeu d'esprit of the pencil and pen."
- Published
- London: R. Ackerman, 1825.
- Plates
- 27
- Binding/Size
- Xs=12mo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: R. Ackerman, 1825.
- Ref
- 300
Contemporary binding of half red leather over marbled paper with gilt lettering and bands to spine. Engraved frontispiece and title page. It is illustrated with 27 hand-coloured engravings (one of which has had its title excised presumably due to binding). Paper browned with occasional marks throughout, but generally good. Boards are worn and rubbed but sound. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontis. Geoffrey Gambado Esq. 2. Engraved title page. 3. Mr. Gambado seeing the World in a six-mile tour, so famed in History. 4. The Mistaken Notion. 5. A bit of Blood. 6. One way to stop your Horse. 7. How to ride genteel and agreeable downhill. 8. How to lose your way. 9. How to turn any Horse, Mare, or Gelding. 10. How to be run away with. 11. How to stop your Horse at pleasure. 12. How to pass a Carriage. 13. How to ride a Horse upon Three Legs. 14. How to ride up Hyde Park. 15. Doctor Cassock F.R.S. T.P.Q. Inventor of the Noble Puzzle for Tumble-Down Horses. 16. How to make the most of a Horse. 17. How to make the Least of Him. 18. How to do things by Halves. 19. Tricks upon Travellers. 20. Love and Wind. 21. Me & my Wife and Daughter. 22. How to make the Mare go. 23. How to prevent a Horse slipping his Girths. 24. How to ride without a bridle. 25. [Caption missing]. 26. A Horse with a Nose. 27. How to travel upon two legs in a Frost.
