Author

NEWDEGATE, C.N

Title

Sketches from the Washington Races
in October 1840 by an eye witness.

Published, Date

n.p.n.d. circa 1840

Description

First edition. Folio. Three large handcoloured plates drawn and lithographed after Newdegate, original printed wrappers, slight wrapper wear, else fine.

Note

Almost certainly English in origin, these large and extremely unusual plates, with lithographed rhymed quatrains beneath, depict a horse race in which two black jockeys compete at breakneck speed, so that " Now the Winner comes in decidedly blown, / Tho'ere two miles were done the race was her own / But they go the whole hog in this western clime, / When they've beaten the field they run against time. " Not in any of the standard sources. Rare.

References

Stock Number

21055