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• Author/Creator:Forester, Frank, 1807-1858.
  
• Title:The tricks and traps of horse dealers / by Frank Forester ; Part I.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Dinsmore and Company, 1858.
  
• Physical Description:70 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: HV6698.N5 T75 1858
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy in original light green paper wrappers printed in black.
  
• Notes:"There is no evidence that ... [the] second part was ever issued."--Van Winkle, W.M. Henry William Herbert ... 1936, p. 67.
  With wood-engraved illustrations by Holcomb-Davis, after (Augustus?) Hoppin.
  With a frontispiece portrait of the author.
  "Number 5. 10 cents"--Cover.
  Publisher's advertisements on back of front cover and on front and back of back cover.
  
• Summary:Instructions on how to identify and avoid swindlers and swindling in the horse trade.
  
• Format:Book
• Series:Tricks and traps ; no. 5
  Tricks and traps ; no. 5.
  
• References:Podeschi, J.B. Books on the horse and horsemanship, 194
  
• Subjects:Forester, Frank, 1807-1858--Portraits.
  Horse dealers--New York (State)--New York.
  Swindlers and swindling--New York (State)--New York.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1858.
  
• Genre/Form:Publishers' advertisements.
  Wood engravings--1858.
  
• Also listed under:Hoppin, Augustus, 1828-1896, ill.
  Holcomb-Davis (Firm), engraver.
  United States--New York (State)--New York.