THE HORSEMAN'S COMPANION

London: Eyre Methuen, 1978. Book. Illus. by Sawrey Gilpin;. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 8vo. 566 pp. Green boards decorated in gilt on the spine; brown endpapers. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; small ink mark on the upper right of the front free endpaper. Wraparound dustjacket painting, Mares and Foals, by Sawrey Gilpin. The Chapters are: The Horse in History and Legend; Equestrian Lore; Famous Horses and Horsemen; Great Races; Horse and Hound; The Horse in Fiction; and The Horse in Verse. This contains far too many stories and articles to list them all but some of the highlights are: The Origin of the Horse by Walter Prescott Webb; The General Tournament by Sir Walter Scott; The Mustang Wild and Free by J. Frank Dobie; The Last Great Cavalry Charge by Winston S. Churchill; The English Gentleman and His Horse by Barbara W. Tuchman; Hints for the Rider by Xenophon; Buying a Horse by Jack Leach; The Make-up of a Racehorse by R. C. Kidd; Eclipse by Stella A. Walker; The Pacing Mustang by Ernest Thompson Seton; Jumping for Joy by Pat Smythe; The Legend of Skittles by H. L. Gibson; The First National by Con O'Leary; Snowstorm Derby by Henry Blyth; Devon Loch's National by Dick Francis; The Huntsman by Peter Beckford; The Man Who Hunts and Never Jumps by Anthony Trollope; The First Day by Siegfried Sassoon; Lost by R. S. Surtees; Squire Western in Pursuit by Henry Fielding; The First Ride by George Borrow; The Dover Road by Charles Dickens; The Highwayman's Mare by R. D. Blackmore; The White Knight by Lewis Carroll; The Fire by Anna Sewell; The Brogue by Saki; Velvet Up by Enid Bagnold; The Horse Fair by Daphne du Maurier; Old Em's Kentucky Home by Damon Runyon; Agony and Ecstasy by Dick Francis; War Cloud by Ernest Hemingway; The Gent from London Way by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; and many, many more..