London: Thomas Hookham, 1836. First edition. 4to. v, (i), 155 pp. Illustrated with 18 lithographed plates on India paper, by Maxim Gauci and Henry Bernard Chalon after George Stubbs, and others. Publisher's quarter olive green cloth over drab boards, blue printed paper spine label, light soiling and wear to boards; all edges trimmed; armorial book-plate of R.N.H. Moore Stevens on front paste-down; text toned; dampstaining along top edge of most plates; in brown cloth fall-down-back box. Huth p. 127; Loder p. 375; Mellon/Podeschi 150

First edition of Broadhurst's study of the conditions of horses and cattle in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially in regard to the changes in techniques for their domestication. With eighteen finely rendered lithographs of both racing and show horses after the preeminent English horse painter George Stubbs.

These beautiful prints provide visuals to discussion of animal husbandry practices and the changes in racehorses over the two centuries. Topics Broadhurst covers include "great tasks performed by racehorses," "artificial qualities, e.g. speed," and "our present racers."

A near-fine copy, rarely found in this condition.