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The Great Horse

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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).

Illustration from The Great Horse; or, The War Horse from the time of the Roman Invasion till its development into the Shire Horse.
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