Valuable Works now Publishing by J. Ridgway. 



THE ENGLISH RACE HORSE. 



A TREATISE ON THE CARE, TREATMENT. AND 

 TRAINING, OF THE ENGLISH RACE HORSE ; with impor- 

 tant Details applicable to bettering the Condition of Horses in general. 

 By R. Darvill, V. S. to the Seventh Hussars. Illustrated by 

 Plates, 1 vol. 8vo. 1/. Is. 



" Never before was such a book written in any language, so replete with those 

 minute but indispensable particulars of practice, and by a writer who has person- 

 ally performed his part throughout the whole of the practice. This is the true 

 book of reference for every stud and training groom, and every jockey. — Vide 

 Lawrence on the Horse, p. 297; also the Sporting Magazine and British Farmer*s 

 Magazine. 



THE VETERINARY TABLET; or a Concise View of all the 

 Diseases of the Horse ; with their Cause, Symptoms, and most ap- 

 proved and effectual Modes^ of Cure. By a Veterinary Surgeon. is.6d, 



THE YOUNG HORSEWOMAN'S COMPENDIUM OF THE 

 MODERN ART OF RIDING. In progressive Lessons; designed 

 to give a secure and graceful Seat on Horseback ; at the same time so 

 effectually to form the Hand, that, in a short time, perfect com- 

 mand of the Horse may be obtained. By Edward Stanley, 

 Royal Artillery, and late of Vernon's Establishment, near Hyde 

 Park; with illustrative Plates, 10s. boards. 



" But we have said enough of this Manual, and have only to add, that it is a very 

 sensible and judicious Publication,"— Xiferary Gazette. 



Preparing for Publication^ by Subscription, and to be ready early in 

 the Spring oj 1831, dedicated, by express permission, to the Most 

 Noble the Marquess of Bute, 



OBSERVATIONS on the present Defective State of ENGLISH 

 TIMBER; the Causes which retard its Growth, together with the 

 means which ought to be immediately adopted to prevent the further 

 premature decay of this valuable description of property, of which its 

 owners in general seem not aware. By P. Lauder, of Cardiff^ 

 Member of the Bristol, Glamorgan, and Monmouth Horticultural 

 Societies, &c. &c. 



The Work will be in octavo, with numerous illustrative Plates; the 

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 amongst them some of tbe principal Members of the Peerage and 

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Also, to be ready early in the Spring o/* 1831, 

 The FOSSIL FLORA of GREAT BRITAIN; or. Figures and 

 Descriptions of the Vegetable Remains found in a Fossil state in this 

 Country. By John Lindley, Esq. F.R.S. L.S. & G.S., ; and William 

 HuTTON, Esq., F.G.S., &c. To appear in Quarterly Parts. Royal 

 8vo. Price 6s. Each Part will contain Ten Copf er-plates, and about 

 forty pages of Letter-press. 



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