Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-05-21
WOOD ENGRAVLJNGS
Elegantly Bound in Embossed Cloth, Extra Gilt
subscription Price-Ten Dollars.

Elegantly Bound in Embossed Cloth, Extra Gilt,
subscription Price-Ten Dollars.
The publishers offer this valuable historical
work on the horse and horsemanship of this con-
tinent, as the most complete publication of the
kind which has ever been issued in this country
The importance Of the horse and horse breeding,
in the broadcast point of view, as source of ma
tionai wealth and an element of national greatness
and power, is now generally recognized in all CIV
ilized communities; but in none has it been SO full
ly admitted, or has the cultivation of the animal
been carried 10 such perfection, as in the United
States of America and the Mother Country. The
author of the work-a true lover of the horse
stands pre-eminent for ability, experience and re-
search the interesting subject which it treats
He has been long engaged in collecting material,
and has received the support and cordial assistance
in his task Of many of the first and most famous
breeders in the country, and has been favored by
them with the use of private family records and
MSS, as well as printed works and documents
equally valuable and difficult to obtain. No pains
have been spared to render it correct and entirely
reliable an indispensable authentic history. The
general view of the contents presented above. will
show that it is intended to be work of actual uti
ty and interest to all classes. Neither stud-book
nor turf-register, it will contain matter of the
highest import to the turfman, as to the breeder,
the amateur the hunter, the lady equestrian, the
yokeman and the bold dragon. A prospectus, in
closed in muslin covers, containing the quality of
paper, India proof Engravngs, Pedigrees, Tables
&C., with specimen pages Of the Work, will be
shown by the authorized agent, who presents this
general circular. 1t will be found to correspond
both in size and quality of paper to that elegant
work, "The Republican Court" The Portraits
accompanying the specimen pages are offered as
representatives, both regards the correctness Of
the paintings and the fine artistic finish of the
cravings of the celebrated horses whose lkenesses
they perpetuate. 1t will be seen that no expense
has been spared to make the whole work credtable
to American Art and fully satisfactory to amateurs
Of correct taste. This work will be elegantly prin-
ted on fine linen paper, in two imperial octave
volumes Of eleven hundred pages; all the impress
sions from steel-engraved portraits, together with
the vignette engravings, from Mr. DarIeys original
designs, will be printed on Indian Paper, with the
most scrupulous care, by Mr.. VIM. D. Dunbar
The expense involved in, this undertaking being
very large, has induced the publishers to issue it
by Subscriptions Only; and as the number of copies
to be printed will be confined strictly to the num-
Der of subscr bers, they earnestly invite all who
are friends to the "noble animal" in all parts of
the Union to assist them in circulating this inval-
liable work, by promptly forwarding to them their
subscriptions, or giving them to their Agents
The work will be ready early in the coming sum-
mes-Pice $40 per copy.
STRINGER & TOWNSEND. Publishers,
No. 2s2 Broadway. New York.
: GjfThe above important work is to be published
BY SUBSCRIPTIONS ONLY. 1t will OF be obtained
except through the AGENTS.
The undersigned has been appointed. by the
Publishers their Agent for Prince Georges,
Charles and St. Mary's Counties, and is no re-
ceiving subscriptions.
As the work is one of great interest to Agricui7
tursts, and to all who take an interest in the I'm
provement of Stock, it will doubtless obtain large
sale in the country.
Persons in the above counties wishing to become
subscribers, will do well to address the undersigned
without delay. The price of the work 1.-TWO volumes
completely will be $40, payable on delivery.
Persons in Charles County who may wish
to subscribe, are requested to leave their
names with the Editor of the Times.
-. THOMAS J. TURNER,
May ID, ls57-tf. Upper Marlboro.