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Lot 60

HUGHES (CHARLES)
The Compleat Horseman; or, the Art of Riding Made Easy: Illustrated by Rules Drawn from Nature, and Confirmed by Experience; with Directions to the Ladies to Sit Gracefully, and Ride with Safety

10 November 2009, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Footnotes

Rare. ESTC lists only the John Rylands and Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (Wellcome Library) copies in the U.K. and three copies in America. "Hughes was said to have been a handsome man of great strength but of rather irritable temper. He opened his own riding school near Blackfriars Bridge on Easter Monday 1772, riding with his wife, a Miss Tomlinson, and his sister, who was romantically named Sobieska Clementina, a variation on the name of the consort of the Jacobite claimant James Edward Stuart. Playbills state that Hughes vaulted backwards and forwards over three horses then over a single horse forty times without stopping" (ODNB).

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