


Lot 37•
TWEEDIE (WILLIAM) The Arabian Horse. His Country and People with Portraits of Typical or Famous Arabians, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 26 OF 100 LARGE PAPER COPIES printed on hand-made paper, Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1894
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TWEEDIE (WILLIAM)
The Arabian Horse. His Country and People with Portraits of Typical or Famous Arabians, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 26 OF 100 LARGE PAPER COPIES printed on hand-made paper, half-title, 7 chromolithographed plates of horses, 30 other plates and illustrations (mostly on India proof paper), large folding colour-printed map ("country of the Arabian Horse") loose as issued in pocket at end, occasional light spotting, publisher's green half morocco gilt, upper cover gilt-stamped with a picture of an Arab horse, spine with pictorial design of a palm oasis, g.e., some mildew to side-panels, a few scuffmarks [Podeschi 258], folio (345 x 260mm.), Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1894
Footnotes
LARGE PAPER EDITION LIMITED TO 100 COPIES of a classic work devoted to the Arabian horse. Major Tweedie was for many years Consul-General at Baghdad, and Political Resident for the Government of India in Turkish Arabia, but had begun his study of Arab horses whilst serving with the British army in India, where Arab horses were highly prized as gifts amongst the native and colonial rulers.
Provenance: C.J. Anstruther, bookplate.