Black beauty his grooms and companions5/11/2023 The spine is lettered and decorated in black and gilt and can be bound in Carter variant A,B, or C. The afterword recommends The Horse Book, published by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty, to readers interested in learning more about the prevention of cruelty towards horses. The text itself is comprised of two hundred forty seven pages divided into four parts and is followed by an untitled afterword. The first edition is approximately 17.2 X 11.43 cm in dimension. The first edition cover is “green cloth over boards blocked in black, gold, and blind” and very simply outlines the shortened title of the work, Black Beauty, depicting an outline of a horse from the neck up. The credit for this illustration is not outlined. It contains a single illustration, at the front of the text, which depicts the fateful fall when Black Beauty wounds his knees, which diminishes his value as a finely-bred horse. The work, mostly dictated by an ailing Sewell to her mother for transcription, is dedicated to Mary Wright Sewell, whom Sewell simply refers to as “Mother” in the text. Print.Īccording to, the first edition of Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse was published in London by Jarrold & Sons. The byline reads, “translated from the original equine” by Anna Sewell.
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