Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Sewell, Anna, 1820-1878
Title:
Black Beauty : his grooms and companions / by A. Sewell.
Edition:
American ed.
Published / Created:
Boston : American Humane Education Society, [1891?]
Physical Description:
iv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sporting 1966
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"The 'Uncle Tom's cabin' of the horse."

Preliminary pages include "Killing animals humanely," which describes how to shoot a horse and a dog in the quickest and least painful way.

BAC: British Art Center copy: First American edition. Orange wrappers; printed in black. In brownish-orange cloth slip-case; dark brown leather label with gold lettering on spine. Spine height: 7 3/4 inches.
Subject Terms:
Horses -- Juvenile fiction. | Horses.
Form/Genre:
Fiction. | Juvenile works.
Contributors:
American Humane Education Society. | Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress)