1922 Galloping Shoes: Verses

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon

First edition. Uncommon work. Illustrated with a colour tipped-in frontispiece and seven tipped-in colour plates. Collated complete with light creases to the tips of plates four and five. A collection of poetry on hunting and horse-riding with sections entitled: The Blast of the Horn, The Call of the Bugle, and The Clink of the Bit. Written by William Henry Ogilvie, a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman, jackaroo, and drover. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards, a British artist who specialised in painting horses and other aspects of British country life.