British Horse Racing.

£5,750 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Pollard's rare and celebrated suite of British horse racing prints. The individual plate titles are: 'Goodwood Grand Stand. Preparing to Start', 'Doncaster Grand Stand. Race for the Gold Cup,' 'Ascot Grand Stand. The Coming in', and 'Epsom Grand Stand. The Winner of the Derby Race'. Four hand-coloured aquatints by Richard Gilson Reeve after Pollard, heightened with gum arabic, on J. Whatman Turkey Mill, dates cropped, plate marks: 348 x 442mm, sheet size: 382 x 484mm sheets, tipped into an album; second plate with small break along lower plate mark, which is reinforced on verso; modern red buckram, gilt-lettered morocco label on front cover, cloth slipcase, a very good, fresh, clean example. Siltzer p. 221.

• Binding: Hardcover

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