An Historical List of All the Plates and Prizes run for on Clifton and Rawcliffe-Ings ... likewise how the Mares came in every Year at Black-Hambleton, including the Year 1751. York: printed and sold by J. Jackson, 1752. Small 8° (140 x 92mm). (Title a little soiled, last few leaves lightly waterstained). Contemporary sheep (rebacked, new rear endpaper). Provenance: F. Morley -- Henry Smurthwaite -- A.O. Harris (signatures on title and pastedown). Prior in History of the Racing Calendar states that J. Jackson 'published the first volume of a Calendar, solely confined to races at York and Hambleton ... Six later editions followed ... These little books, which enjoyed considerable popularity, are now very scarce, neither the British Museum, the Bodleian at Oxford, or the York Public Library, having a copy'. Prior p. 263.

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An Historical List of All the Plates and Prizes run for on Clifton and Rawcliffe-Ings ... likewise how the Mares came in every Year at Black-Hambleton, including the Year 1751. York: printed and sold by J. Jackson, 1752. Small 8° (140 x 92mm). (Title a little soiled, last few leaves lightly waterstained). Contemporary sheep (rebacked, new rear endpaper). Provenance: F. Morley -- Henry Smurthwaite -- A.O. Harris (signatures on title and pastedown). Prior in History of the Racing Calendar states that J. Jackson 'published the first volume of a Calendar, solely confined to races at York and Hambleton ... Six later editions followed ... These little books, which enjoyed considerable popularity, are now very scarce, neither the British Museum, the Bodleian at Oxford, or the York Public Library, having a copy'. Prior p. 263.

With another racing calendar by James Weatherby (London, 1777, vol.V only), the Earl of Clermont's copy, specially bound for him in red morocco gilt; and Charles Thompson's Rules for Bad Horsemen (London, 1765). (3)

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