London: Nicholson & Watson, 1946, London [published date: 1946] Hardcover Brown Leather. Good/No Jacket. The book of the horse comes in four parts part one- The worlds horse by Lady Wentworth, part two- The horse in art by Lionel Edwards, part three- The horse in literature and part four- Buying a horse by Lieut.-Colonel F.C.Hitchcock, also includes many things like flat racing in england, pony and trotting races, steeplechasing, british racing thoroughbred and thoroughbred breeding, breeds and breeding of percherons, cleveland bays, suffolks, cooemaras, dartmoor and exmoor ponies, right from buying a horse to saddlery, schooling, stabling, bitting and many, many more. The book contains over a hundred illustrations, lovely brown cloth illustrated cover to front and back, slight rubbing to top and bottom of spine, very slight browning, 9 and 1/2 by 7 and 1/4 with 879 pages, lovely large book.Original brown cloth boards with green embossed title and decorations. Illustrated two-tone endpapers. Extensive illustrations and photographs throughout. and a glossary of equine terms.