Bibliothèque mondiale du cheval

« […] The Academy for grown Horſemen, is a work that has coil me much labour, and the application of ſome years, to complete. But when I confider the vaſt utility it may be of to my fellow creatures; that they are to profit by it, and not myſelf : "Sic vos non vobis, fertis aratra boves."
I flatter myſelf I have not waſted the midnight oil in vain, "and I look with pleaſure on my book, giving it to the world with the ſatisfaction of a man who has endeavoured to deſerve well." May many be the necks it preſerves for nobler purpoſes.
I am happy in having met with an artiſt, who has illuſtrated my ideas of horſemanſhip completely to my wiſhes, and I here beg leave thus publickly to acknowledge my obligations to him.
As I ſhall be as conciſe and explicit as poſſible, in the valuable inſtructions and diſcoveries I am now about to communicate to the world; it will be the reader’s own fault, if he does not profitably benefit by them. When I have told him how to chuſe a horſe, how to tackle him properly, in what ſort of dreſs to ride him, how to mount and manage him, how to ride him out, and above all, how to ride him home again; if he is not a complete horſeman in the courſe of ten or a dozen ſummers, I will be bold to foretell, that neither the ſkill of Mr. Aſtley, nor the experience of Mr. John Gilpin, will ever make him one. » Présentation de l’éditeur (1787)

« Also published with and generally bound with the above, though with separate title page Annals of Horsemanship, containing accounts of accidental experiments, and experimental accidents both successful and unsuccessful, together with most instructive marks thereon and answers thereto, etc. By Geoffery (sic) Gambado. [H. Bunbury.] fol. London, 1787; in-4° London, 1787 and 1791; in-8° Dublin, 1792; in-4° London, 1796; in-8° London, 1809; in-8° London, 1811; in-4° London, 1822. » Huth (1887)