Search Results: the shire horse a history by chivers keith

Paperback. Very Good.

UK: Futura, 1978. abridged. waterstain to edge of back cover & last 20 pages. binding tight.. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Illus. by Photographs. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Acceptable.

J a Allen & Co Ltd, 1999-08. Hardcover. Good.

Shire Horse Society. 1988. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated. A very nice copy. VG+.

The Shire horse is thought to have descended from "the Great Horse," a warhorse hundreds of years ago. This horse is often depicted in rolling fields in the countryside, predominantly used in agriculture and for pulling heavy carts. By the late 18th century, the famous stallion called the Packington Blind Horse was a stud in Leicestershire, now recognised as the founding sire of the Shire horse that we know today. The Shire Horse Society has records going back to 1701. But as the industrial revolution made the role of the Shire redundant, many of the equines ceased to be in demand by farms and workers. In the 1970's, people who know and love the breed began to campaign to save the breed from eventual extinction. Although the Shire horse still has a long way to go, the society began to promote the Shire horse for its willing attitude as a riding mount and also as a carthorse. shire horse breed facts A Willing and Brave Riding Horse Today, the Shire horse not only has a reputation as a willing and brave… Read More

1999. Hardcover. UsedVeryGood.

J.A.Allen & Co Ltd, 01/09/1976 00:00:01. hardcover. Very Good. 5.1961 in x 23.5821 in x 15.5882 in.

London: J. A. Allen, 1976. 1st edition. Very Good. octavo. hardback with dust jacket xxviii + 834pp., col. & b/w pls., appends., references, indexes,

London: J. A. Allen, 1988. reprint. Fine. octavo. hardback with dust jacket xxviii + 834pp., col. & b/w pls., appends., references, indexes,

Allen,, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, and coloured and monochrome plates; handsomely bound in full tan calf, upper board blocked in gilt, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt edges, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, white silk marker, a near fine copy in publisher's marbled board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 100 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY LORD CORNWALLIS (THIS COPY. NO. 87).

London, 1976. First Edition. Hard Cover. The Society and the Men (J A Allen 1976). First UK Edition Deluxe Issue. # 61 of an Edition limited to 100 numbered copies in an elegant calf binding with a shire horse embossed in gold on the front board each signed by Lord Cornwallis with a special preface by him. All edges gilt. In matching slipcase that uses the same marbling as the marbled end-papers inside the book. A wonderful production. This book is a work of massive scholarship, the first full length history ever published, of one of the world's greatest breeds of horses, the men who bred them and the Society which has perpetuated interest in them until modern times. The author has amassed a vast amount of information and references unobtainable elsewhere culled from parish and private records and published here for the first time. But this is no dry "breed history", this book is a compelling story of the grandest and most massive of… Read More