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THE ROYAL OFFICE OF MASTER OF THE HORSE

by M.M. Reese

Published by Threshold Books. 1st. 1976

Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper. Large format. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w and colour illustrations.

SIGNED by author and also the Duke of Beaufort on title page. Price-cut wrapper. Tape marks to endpapers and wrapper flaps. Wrapper is a little edge rubbed.

ISBN: 0901366900
Stock no. 1609533

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Contents

  • Acknowledgements and Author's Note
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter
  • 1 Origins
  • 2 The Norman Household
  • 3 Ellis of Rochester
  • 4 The Brocas Masters
  • 5 The Stable Knights
  • 6 Games on Horseback
  • 7 Agincourt
  • 8 The Fifteenth Century
  • 9 Tudor Display
  • 10 A Problem of Precedence
  • 11 Mid-century
  • 12 Elizabethan Masters
  • 13 The Early Stuarts
  • 14 Bloody Interlude
  • 15 Restoration and After
  • 16 The Horsemen of Hanover
  • 17 George III
  • 18 The Move to Pimlico
  • 19 Long to Reign Over Us
  • 20 Horse and Car
  • 21 The Last of the Cream
  • 22 Gay Corinthian
  • 23 The Beaufort Era
  • Notes on the Masters
  • Sources of Illustrations
  • Index

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