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DOGS & HORSES. - William ARKWRIGHT. The Pointer and his Predecessors An illustrated history of the pointing dog from the earliest times. London: 1902. 4° (320 x 255mm). Title in red and black, half-title. 39 plates. Original cream buckram-backed green cloth gilt, top edge gilt (somewhat soiled, extremities bumped). Provenance: Arthur Humbert (inscription dated 1904). LIMITED EITION OF 750 COPIES, this number 267.
McTAGGART, M.F. From Colonel to Subaltern Some keys for horseowners. London & New York: 1928. 4° (290 x 230mm). Frontispiece, illustrated limitation leaf and numerous illustrations, all coloured by hand using the 'pochoir' process, other small uncoloured illustrations. Original vellum, blocked in brown and gilt, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt. EDITION DE LUXE, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, this number 4 signed by the author; and 23 others on dogs and horses, including: B. Vesey-Fitzgerald. The Book of the Horse, London & Brussels, 1946, 4°, original pigskin, number 37 of 200 copies; The Book of the Dog, London & Brussels, 1948, 4°, original morocco, number 62 of 100 copies; W. Faber. Wit and wisdom of the shires, Leicester, 1932, 4°, original morocco, number 27 of 50 copies; R. Ball. Broncho, London & New York, 1930, 4°, original morocco-backed cloth, number 1 of 200 copies. (25)
McTAGGART, M.F. From Colonel to Subaltern Some keys for horseowners. London & New York: 1928. 4° (290 x 230mm). Frontispiece, illustrated limitation leaf and numerous illustrations, all coloured by hand using the 'pochoir' process, other small uncoloured illustrations. Original vellum, blocked in brown and gilt, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt. EDITION DE LUXE, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, this number 4 signed by the author; and 23 others on dogs and horses, including: B. Vesey-Fitzgerald. The Book of the Horse, London & Brussels, 1946, 4°, original pigskin, number 37 of 200 copies; The Book of the Dog, London & Brussels, 1948, 4°, original morocco, number 62 of 100 copies; W. Faber. Wit and wisdom of the shires, Leicester, 1932, 4°, original morocco, number 27 of 50 copies; R. Ball. Broncho, London & New York, 1930, 4°, original morocco-backed cloth, number 1 of 200 copies. (25)
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