Transcriber’s Note
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of these changesis found at the end of the text.
THE YOUNG LADY’S
EQUESTRIAN MANUAL.
E.LANDELLS.S.
LONDON. WHITEHEAD AND COMPY. 76, FLEET STREET. MDCCCXXXVIII.
PREFACE.
The following pages contain a Treatise on the Art of Riding onHorseback, for Ladies, which originally appeared in the Publishers’well-known Manual of elegant feminine Recreations, Exercises, andPursuits, The Young Lady’s Book; with, however, various additions to theText, and a number of new Illustrations and Embellishments.
In offering the Treatise, thus improved and adorned, in a separate form,[iv]the Publishers, it need scarcely be said, have been influenced,materially, by that high and most extensive patronage, which, underRoyal auspices, has been conferred by the ladies of this country, sincethe commencement of the present reign, on the Art of which it is thesubject.
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