An Academy for Grown Horsemen; Containing the Completest Instructions For Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling; Annals of Horsemanship: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments, and Experimental Accidents, Both Successful and Unsuccessful: Communicated By Various Correspondents

London: W. Nicholson for W. Baynes, 1808 . Leather. Very Good. 13.5" by 10.5". Geoffrey Gambado [Henry William Bunbury]. A lovely example of Henry William Bunbury's humorous work satirising horsemen, entertainingly illustrated throughout with caricatures by the author. The third edition of 'An Academy For Grown Horsemen', bound with 'Annals of Horsemanship', as is common with this work.Illustrated with thirty plates in total; twelve plates plus a frontispiece to 'An Academy For Grown Horsemen', and sixteen plates and a frontispiece to 'Annals of Horsemanship'. Collated, complete. An entertaining satirical work on horsemanship, enlivened with illustrated caricatures.The second work is a parody of Arthur Young's 'Annals of Agriculture', a periodical published in forty-five volumes from 1784 to 1815.This work departs from the typical use caricatures of political satire of the day, instead using the humour of the drawings to mock society, in particular the antics of horseman.Illustrated by the author, Henry William Bunbury, a very popular caricaturist of the Georgian era. In a half morocco binding, with cloth covered boards. Rubbing to joints and board perimeters, with marks to boards. Front hinge a touch strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with light spotting throughout, most concentrated to plate perimeters. Loss to fore edge of one plate, and closed tear to fore edge of another. Very Good