The Ass : How Long Have They Helped Us?
48pp. One colour illustration, numerous black and white illustrations throughout text. In green cloth-covered boards with black lettering (boards are faded and rubbed at edges, corners and spine tips, sunned spine, marks on cloth). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a small area of paper thinning on rear paste down endpaper. A examination of the history of interaction between mankind and its beast of burden, the ass, from earliest times to the 20th century, covering the uses to which asses, mules and donkeys have been put by man.