"Thoroughbred Racing Stock And Its Ancestors : The Authentic Origin Of Pure Blood" 1938 WENTWORTH, Lady (SOLD)

"Thoroughbred Racing Stock And Its Ancestors : The Authentic Origin Of Pure Blood" 1938 WENTWORTH, Lady (SOLD)WENTWORTH, Lady Judith Anne Dorothea Blunt Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth, (18731957) also known as Lady Wentworth, was a British peer, Arabian horse breeder and real tennis player. As the owner of the Crabbet Arabian Stud from 1917 to 1957, her influence on Arabian horse breeding was profound, with over 90 percent of all Arabian horses in the world today carrying lines to Crabbet bloodstock in their pedigrees [475] pp. 388 plates in half tone & 21

WENTWORTH, Lady

Judith Anne Dorothea Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth, (1873–1957) also known as Lady Wentworth, was a British peer, Arabian horse breeder and real tennis player. As the owner of the Crabbet Arabian Stud from 1917 to 1957, her influence on Arabian horse breeding was profound, with over 90 percent of all Arabian horses in the world today carrying lines to Crabbet bloodstock in their pedigrees

[475] pp.

388 plates in half-tone & 21 plates in colour & many diagrams in the text

Charles Scribner's Sons

1938

11 1/4" x 9 1/4"

VG/ VG

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Many voices concerning the horses of the world, with additional chapters from the notes of the late Lady Anne Blunt (15th Baroness Wentworth) and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, on the Arabian breed, collected, edited, and enlarged, with a history of the thoroughbred racehorse and the horses of the east and west / by Lady Wentworth.