Flat Racing.

£185 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

A brilliant deluxe edition of Flat Racing from the Lonsdale Library's Sports, Games Pastimes series, containing chapters on the British Thoroughbred horse, jockeyship, and training along with 34 plates. Deluxe edition; 8vo (23 x 15 cm); 34 plates, coloured frontispiece, blue marbled endpapers, bookmark in blue ribbon; bound in full blue rough-grained morocco with gilt Lonsdale crest to upper board and Lonsdale coronet corner-pieces, spine with raised bands, 6 compartments with gilt lettering in the first and second, and gilt coronets in the other four, minor wear to corners, top edge gilt with pages uncut, partially unopened, a very fine copy; 432 pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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