Books on the Horse and Horsemanship, Riding, Hunting, Breeding & Racing, 1400-1941, a Catalogue

by John B. Podeschi, comp

$100 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

London and New Haven, CT : Tate Gallery for the Yale Center for British Art, 1981. First edition, in the series Sport in Art and Books, the Paul Mellon Collection . 4to. xvii, 3 , 427 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, some in color. Introduction: A Physical History of English books on a luxury subject: the horse as an animal of noble recreation and delight. Descriptive bibliography of the horse from illuminated manuscripts to the final works issued

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