Colour Plate & Illustrated
NEWDEGATE, C.N
Sketches from the Washington Races in October 1840 by an eye witness.
n.p. n.d. circa 1840. First edition. Folio. Three large handcoloured plates drawn and lithographed after Newdegate, original printed wrappers, slight wrapper wear, else fine.
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.
Price: £ 3750
US Dollar Price: $ 5640
Stock Number: 21055