ILLUSTRATIONS.
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German Knight of the Fifteenth or Sixteenth Century(Frontispiece)
British Coins of the First Century7
Great Horse; after Albert Dürer22
Equestrian Figure in Tilting Armour, Sixteenth Century26
Sir Walter Hungerford, Knight of Heytesbury30
The Duke of Arenburg; after Vandyke38
Seals of Charles I.41
The Protector on a Great Horse42
Great Horse; after Paul Potter46
Norfolk Cart Horse, Dodman (1780)53
A Leicestershire Shire Horse; after Garrard (1720 to 1795)54
Shire Horse, Elephant56
A Shire Gelding of Messrs. Whitbread’s (1792)57
Piebald Shire Horses, Pirate and Outlaw (1810)58
Piebald Plough Teams (1844-1855)58
Honest Tom (1865)60
Blythwood Conqueror (1893)64
A HISTORY TRACING THE SHIRE HORSE TO THE OLD ENGLISH GREAT HORSE (THE WAR HORSE).
