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A Tradition of Collecting: Property from Cornelia Guest

Sat, Nov 14, 2015 11:00AM EST - Sun, Nov 15, 2015 11:00AM EST
Lot 252

FOTHERGILL, GEORGE A.; A GIFT TO THE STATE: THE NATIONAL STUD

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1 volume, 4to, Published by T. and A. Constable, London, 1916. Edition of 300. With Col. W. Hall Walker's Compliments" slip pasted to FFEP.Touchstone, S. F.; History of English and French Celebrated Stallions and French Mares which Appeared on the Turf from 1764 to 18671 volume, Landscape Folio, Published by Nimmo, London, 1890. First edition, limited to 520 copies, this is Number 4. Contents include 134 hand-colored vignettes, 60 full-page chromolithograph plates. Original green front cover bound in rear. Re-bound in ¾ red leather over stained red cloth boards, top edges gilt; gilt spine titled Celebrated Horses.The Sporting Life: The British Turf and The Men Who Have Made It1 Volume, Folio, Published by The Biographical Press, London, 1906. Bound in black morocco with gilt titles, all edges gilt.Hailey, Clarence; Thoroughbred Sires1 Volume, Oblong Folio, Published by Clarence Hailey, London, 1908. Bound in black pebbled leather, faded gilt titles."