Gambado, Geoffrey. & Bunbury, Henry. (1750-1811). — An Academy for Grown Horsemen:

Containing the completest instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galopping, Stumbling and Tumbling. illusstrated with copper plates, and adorned with a portrait of the author. By Geoffrey Gambado,Riding master, master of the Horse, and grand Equerry to the doge of Venice (pseudonym for Henry Bunbury). The fourth edition. London: printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1812. 2voll. in 1. Being the fourth edition of the first work and teh first (and only) edition of the second; 27 hand-coloured plates in total. 12 in the first title and 17 in the second. Handsomely bound in red half sand-grained morocco over brick red cloth by Riviere, of London; gilt spine panelled and decorated with 5 fleur-de-lys style devices; all edges gilt.A few knocks to the edges and the tips of the corners, coloured down places. A very fine copy.Henry Bunbury was an English caricaturist from Mildenhall in Suffolk and a contempory of Rowlandson and Gillray. His works were mainly of a political nature and immensely popular during the first part of the 17th century, hes works appearing frequently in the Royal Academy between 1780 and 1808. (XXVIII)-81pp.4to.(30.5 x 25 cm).