A HISTORY OF BRITISH NATIVE PONIES: FROM THE BRONZE AGE TO THE PRESENT DAY
by Anthony A. Dent; Daphne Machin Goodall
Published by J.A. Allen. 1st thus. 1988
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. First published under the title The Foals of Epona in 1962. Reproduced from the original by J.A. Allen. A scholarly history of British Native ponies starting from the Iron Age, when the cult of the celtic goddess Epona, patroness of horse-breeders was widely diffussed in north-west Europe and was spread still wider by the Roman Empire. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos & illustrations.
Pale foxing to boards. Text block browned. A few foxspots to contents, mainly to prelims. Pictorial dustwrapper has the remains of a label to front panel and is grubby to rear panel.
ISBN: 0851314368
Stock no. 1828158
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- HORSES
