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An academy for grown horsemen — 1812 / GAMBADO Geoffrey, 1812
An academy for grown horsemen : containing the completest instructions for walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, stumbling, and tumbling — illustrated with copper plates, and adorned with a portrait of the author, by Geoffrey Gambado. / GAMBADO Geoffrey
: London , Printed for John Stockdale, 1812
: 1 vol.
: XXVIII-81 p.
: 31 cm
: planches
Anglais

: Art / Humour

« The Public is in high luck to obtain anything more that comes from the pen of Geoffrey Gambado. A former publication has nearly immortalized him, and I trust the present will do it completely. It is true this work is chiefly composed of Letters addrest to him, but his remarks and replies are added to them; and had it not been for Geoflrey, such letters had never made their appearance; perhaps never been written. What had been such a lofs to the community ! I will venture to affirm that few, very few, have heard of such extraordinary cases, such novel ideas, and such obvious and salutary advice as are contained in the following pages. Were I to mention the odd place in which I found the MSS. copy of this work, it might create laughter. —
"A passion hateful to my purposes."
For having the safety of man’s neck in my eye at this present writing, I think it no laughing matter; and shall therefore deem it sufficient to say, I have found it, and have now the satisfaction of laying it before the world.
A paltry publication has lately made its appearance, on the same construction as this. It is a periodical thing, entitled The Annals of Agriculture, and will, I dare say, be of much use in the chandlers shops. This too, like Geoffrey’s edifying collection of letters, treats on propagation, cultivation, preservation, the good of the nation, &c. &c. But when we once confider for a moment the different objects the authors claim our attention in behalf of — Should even a potatoe enter the lists with a poney, my blood rises — my choler is excited. […] » Présentation de l’éditeur (1792)