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Chapters from turf history
Author
Title
Chapters from turf history / by Newmarket.
Publication
London : "The National Review" Office, 43, Duke Street, St. James's, S.W. 1, 1922.
Physical Description
159, [1] pages, [22] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's tan quarter cloth, and gray-blue boards, with printed title label.
Notes
Published in 1774 under title "Newmarket; or, An essay on the turf."--D.N.B., v.43, p. 410.
Reprinted from the National review.
Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.
Variant and related titles
Turf history.
Newmarket.
Essay on the turf.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 08, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
I. Prime Ministers and their race-horses
II. A great match (Voltigeur and the Flying Dutchman)
III. Danebury and Lord George Bentinck
IV. The ring, the turf, and parliament (Mr. Gully, M.P.)
V. Disraeli and the race-course
VI. The fraud of a derby
VII. The turf and some reflections.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Photomechanical prints - 1922.
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