"The Riding Club Of New York 1905 Members Annual" (SOLD) Decoys

"The Riding Club Of New York 1905 Members Annual" (SOLD) Decoys[56] pp. 5 3 4" x 4 3 8" VG Following the completion of Central Park, riding clubs and academies cropped up nearby. Among the first was the New York Riding Club, organized in 1873. Its elegant club rooms were located in Durland's Riding Academy at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street. Seven years later a group of members splintered off, creating the Gentlemen's Riding Club, deemed by James Grant Wilson in his 1893 The Memorial History of the City of New York,

which he acquired while visiting Paris in the 1970s

charged with symbolism

and exquisite photographs

and eventually the capital of a republic

and so may have originally been accompanied by a separate key

Sz: 1 3/8"D x 3/8"D

plus ample coverage of general art history

but it is perfectly true that the thing is neither a dirty book nor about them

74-77 : "The great evenings are reborn" P

Summer Meeting depicts the frenzied and exciting moments at the conclusion of a race at famed Epsom Downs

Marshal Field

w/ Sleeve cuffs & patch pockets