"Indispensable Accomplishments"; original publisher's title page (Primary Title)
Sir Robert Frankland, English, 1784 - 1849 (Artist)
Printed in center of sheet: INDISPENSABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS. / "Ev'ry species of ground evr'y Horse does not suit; / What's a good Country Hunter* may here prove a Brute; / And, unless for all sorts of strange fences prepar'd, / A Man and his Horse are sure to be scar'd." / * "As every COUNTRY GENTLEMAN may not comprehend the force of this expression, he ought to know, / that the MELTONIANS hold every Horse cheap, which cannot GO ALONG A SLAPPING PACE, / STAY AT THAT PACE, SKIM RIDGE & FURROW, CATCH HIS HORSES, TOP A FLIGHT OF RAILS, / COME WELL INTO THE NEXT FIELD, CHARGE AN OX FENCE, GO IN AND OUT CLEVER, FACE / A BROOK, SWISH AT A RASPER, and in short, DO ALL THAT KIND OF THING, phrases so plain & / intelligible, that it's impossible to mistake their meaning. That Horse is held in the same / contempt in LEICESTERSHIRE, as a Coxcomb holds a Country Bumpkin. / In vulgar countries, (i.e. all others) where these ACCOMPLISHMENTS are not INDISPENSABLE, / hemay be a Hunter." / BILLESDON COPLOW. / Published June 24, 1811. by H.Humphrey No. 29. St. James's Street. Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 19 / 20A", "D" (crossed through) and "24A".
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