Horses Past and Present

Transcriber's Note:
Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible. Some changes have been made. They are listed at the end of the text.
The illustration On Saddle and Pillion is the frontispiece, but the list of illustrations has it Face p. 28 .

SADDLE AND PILLION.
(From “The Procession of the Flitch of Bacon,” by THOMAS STOTHARD, R.A.)
HORSES PAST AND PRESENT
BY SIR WALTER GILBEY, Bart.
ILLUSTRATED
VINTON & Co., Ltd. 9, NEW BRIDGE STREET, LONDON, E.C.
1900
This brief history of the Horse in England to the close of the nineteenth century is a compilation which, it is hoped, may prove useful as well as interesting.