First edition, first impression. 192pp, lavishly illustrated in full colour throughout. Glazed, pictorial boards. Elephant folio. Very slightly pushed at spine ends else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original glossy dust wrapper; dust wrapper is slightly shelf worn and bumped along the upper edge.
A huge (17.5 inches tall) and magnificent volume celebrating the horse in art. Rachel Barnes traces the changes and development of the horse in art - as a subject of anatomical scrutiny, as an embodiment of strength and beauty, to its role as a creature in myth and legend or as a symbol of royal power while her husband, the equestrian, Simon Barnes tells the story of each painting from a horseman's perspective, vividly setting out the relationship between man and horse through the ages.
