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Stubbs (George Townly, 1756-1815). A complete series of 14 stipple engravings for the Turf Gallery, by George Townly Stubbs after George Stubbs (1724-1806), Edward Orme 1817, 14 large uncoloured stipple engravings on heavy wove paper, as issued by Edward Orme with publication line altered to: London, Republished June 4, 1817, by Edwd. Orme, New Bond Street, corner of Brook Street, plate size 405 x 508 mm (16 x 20 ins) or very similar, sheet size 470 x 640 mm (18.5 x 25.25 ins), some plates with light spotting, mostly to margins (generally in clean condition), bound as a set of engravings, without title or associated text, short closed tear to right blank margin of Bobtail, bound in contemporary half brown calf over marbled boards, somewhat heavily rubbed and marked, and with large red morocco gilt label to centre of upper cover, lettered Stubb's Turf Gallery, binding 481 x 648 mm (19 x 25.5 ins) (Qty: 1) The subjects are: Gimcrack, Anvil, Dungannon, Volunteer, Sweetbrier, Sharke, Marske, Protector, Pumpkin, Sweetwilliam, Bobtail, Mambrino, Eclipse, and Baronet. Lennox-Boyd 100, iii/iii, 102, iii/iii, 104, iii/iii, 106, iii/iii, 108, iv/iv, 110, iii/iii, 112, iii/iii, 114, iii/iii, 116, iii/iii, 118, iii/iii, 120, ii/ii, 122, ii/ii and 124, ii/ii. First issued in 1794 as a collaboration between George Stubbs and his son George Townly Stubbs, the Turf Gallery is probably the most famous set of racehorse prints in existence. The history of the original publication is described in detail by Lennox-Boyd (1989), and Judy Egerton (2007). This rare complete set is from the reissue of the original plates published by Edward Orme in 1817. Literature: Christopher Lennox-Boyd, Rob Dixon and Tim Clayton, George Stubbs The Complete Engraved Works, 1989; Judy Egerton, George Stubbs Painter: Catalogue Raisonné (2007).