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The supplement to The general stud-book, being the produce of mares, continued to 1799, inclusive: by the same author. To which is added, a short Dissertation on horses, by Colonel Gilbert Ironside.

Sketches in the Malay archipelago. Album of watercolours and photographs made and collected by J.E. Taylor.

Taylor, J. E. (John Edmund), fl. 1860-1885

1 drawing : pen and ink, with wash ; image 13.7 x 20.6 cm

Singapore: a stubborn horse at the start of Singapore racecourse. Pen and ink drawing by J. Taylor, 1881.

1 drawing : pen and ink drawing, with wash ; image 11.9 x 14.4 cm

Singapore: two race-going celebrities talk as a race horse is ridden past them. Pen and ink drawing by J. Taylor, 1881.

"This is essentially an English sport, and nowhere out of England and Ireland has it ever attained popular favor. … The spirited illustrations on this and the opposite page show the closing scenes in a hard rider headlong to the ground. It is his last leap. The rider stands sympathetically bending over him as he lies stretched on the ground, gasping for breath. Who but must pity the gallant creature, run to death for the amusement of a crowd of idlers? Steeple-chasing, from the nature of things, can never become an American sport, and this is certainly not to be regretted. To say nothing of the sad accidents that sometimes occur, resulting in the death or maiming for life of some poor fellow, it is a most cruel and distressing "sport" for the horses, and even in England a strong public opinion is forming against it. In no very remote period it will probably be numbered among the things that were, like bear-baiting and other cruel sports in which our ancestors took delight."—Harper's weekly, op. cit. pp. 366-367
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1 print : wood engraving ; image 22.3 x 29.8 cm

A horse has been killed after jumping a hurdle in a steeplechase: the jockey holding a whip looks at it with concern. Wood engraving by E. Froment, 1874 after W. Small.

A key to the central scene in a painting by A.C. Havell. The key reveals the names of the race-horse owners whose colours are represented, and the identities of fourteen of the jockeys

1 print : lithograph ; sheet 22 x 29.9 cm

Key to the racing colours in the painting "A racing nightmare" by A.C. Havell. Lithograph, ca. 1891.

1 photograph : photoprint, platinum ; 10.5 x 14.8 cm

Kuching, Sarawak: horses being mounted in the racecourse paddock. Photograph.

xvi, 132 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves (first blank), 30 pages ; (8vo)

The supplement to the General stud-book, being the produce of mares, continued to 1799, inclusive / by the same author. To which is added, a short dissertation on horses, by Colonel Gilbert Ironside.

Leaflet advertising Newball & Mason's coffee essence with chicory. The cartoon shows a winning jockey whose body is a bottle of the essence.

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The supplement to The general stud-book, being the produce of mares, continued to 1799, inclusive: by the same author. To which is added, a short Dissertation on horses, by Colonel Gilbert Ironside.

Singapore: a stubborn horse at the start of Singapore racecourse. Pen and ink drawing by J. Taylor, 1881.

Singapore: two race-going celebrities talk as a race horse is ridden past them. Pen and ink drawing by J. Taylor, 1881.

A horse has been killed after jumping a hurdle in a steeplechase: the jockey holding a whip looks at it with concern. Wood engraving by E. Froment, 1874 after W. Small.

Key to the racing colours in the painting "A racing nightmare" by A.C. Havell. Lithograph, ca. 1891.

Kuching, Sarawak: horses being mounted in the racecourse paddock. Photograph.

The supplement to the General stud-book, being the produce of mares, continued to 1799, inclusive / by the same author. To which is added, a short dissertation on horses, by Colonel Gilbert Ironside.

Mason's essence of coffee and chicory easily leads / Newball & Mason.

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The supplement to The general stud-book, being the produce of mares, continued to 1799, inclusive: by the same author. To which is added, a short Dissertation on horses, by Colonel Gilbert Ironside.

Singapore: a stubborn horse at the start of Singapore racecourse. Pen and ink drawing by J. Taylor, 1881.

Singapore: two race-going celebrities talk as a race horse is ridden past them. Pen and ink drawing by J. Taylor, 1881.

A horse has been killed after jumping a hurdle in a steeplechase: the jockey holding a whip looks at it with concern. Wood engraving by E. Froment, 1874 after W. Small.

Key to the racing colours in the painting "A racing nightmare" by A.C. Havell. Lithograph, ca. 1891.

Kuching, Sarawak: horses being mounted in the racecourse paddock. Photograph.

The supplement to the General stud-book, being the produce of mares, continued to 1799, inclusive / by the same author. To which is added, a short dissertation on horses, by Colonel Gilbert Ironside.

Mason's essence of coffee and chicory easily leads / Newball & Mason.

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