The Authentic Arabian Horse and His Descendants: Three Voices Concerning the Horses of Arabia.

WENTWORTH, Lady Judith Blunt-Lytton.

Item Number: 100742

London: George, Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1943.

First edition of Lady Wentworth’s classic work on the Arabian horse. Quarto, bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Elaborately illustrated with 263 monochrome plates and 25 color plates including frontispiece. In fine condition.

Lord Byron's great-granddaughter, Judith Anne Dorothea Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth (also known as Lady Wentworth) had a profound influence on Arabian horse breeding as the owner of the Crabbet Arabian Stud from 1917 to 1957. Over 90 percent of all Arabian horses in the world today carry lines to Crabbet bloodstock in their pedigrees. Lady Wentworth published nearly 20 works throughout her lifetime including Toy Dogs and their Ancestors (1911), Arab Horse Nonsense (1950). The Crabbet Arabian Stud (1957), and the present volume, her final work, published in 1963.