Lydekker, R. — The Horse and its Relatives

George Allen & Co. London xii, 286, 24 b/w plates, text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Errata slip tipped in at front. Withdrawn from an institutional library, neat ink stamps at beginning and end; small circular labels to spine. Good.. First edition. A well-illustrated popular account of the horse family by Richard Lydekker (1849-1915), the noted British naturalist and vertebrate zoologist. The work surveys the evolution, structure, geographical distribution and principal living and extinct members of the Equidae, including horses, asses and zebras, with discussion of their ancestry, domestication and relationships. Lydekker was an authority on fossil and recent mammals and produced numerous important zoological works for both scientific and general readers..