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UK: Four Courts Press Ltd, 1997. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This is a book of quite remarkable range and depth. For over thirty years Charles Gladitz has explored every lead to documentary evidence of horse breeding from as far away as China, Mongolia and Turkistan and as near as 13th-century England and Scotland. Diet, the breeding environment are studied, as well as the core subject of breeding per se. With the main focus on the middle ages the author also concludes with ideas and practices related to the present day. The book is signed and dated on the title page. A good clean copy.