XRARE: 1892 Salesman's Sample - Gleason's Horse Book - horse care & training

Salesman's Sample:
Gleason's Horse Book
THE ONLY AUTHORIZED WORK BY AMERICA'S KING OF HORSE TAMERS, COMPRISING HISTORY, BREEDING, TRAINING, BREAKING, BUYING FEEDING, GROOMING, SHOEING, DOCTORING, TELLING AGE, AND GENERAL CARE OF THE HORSE

By Prof. Oscar Gleason

Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1892

The self-styled "King of Horse Trainers", Prof. Oscar Gleason published a number of books in the 1890s on horse care, breaking, and training. This is a salesman's sample of his most popular work. It includes excerpts of chapters from throughout the book and is profusely illustrated with drawings and b/w plates of paintings. There are blank pages in the back with sales records (in pencil) as well as a sample of the leather spine glued inside the back cover.

Black- and gilt-stamped cloth boards. 8.75" x 6". More than 100 pages (excerpted from the full book of 484 pages). Profusely illustrated.