PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 



photographs done by Mr. E. Muybridge, and published in his Animal 

 Locomotion; although the artistic "treatment" of the horses is 

 original. This matchless American work is solely a collection of 

 photographs, and does not contain any analysis of the movements of 

 the horse. I may also mention that the photographs of Anschutz, 

 on the same subject, are excellent. 



In order to facilitate comparison, I have tried, as far as I have 

 been able, to get the portraits of the horses, asses and zebras which 

 are in this book, done to a uniform scale, namely, i to 20. I have 

 added an index, which I have tried to make as easy of reference 

 and as exhaustive as possible. 



While strictly confining myself to the limits which bound the 

 subject of Equine Conformation, I have had, while writing this book, 

 the fortunate opportunity of throwing light on many points of 

 horse knowledge which T have been, hitherto, unable to discuss in 

 print. I therefore hope that the appearance of this work will help 

 to complete what I have already written, in my books on veterinary 

 science, riding, breaking, training and stable management ; and that 

 they and it will now form a useful horseman's library. 



Without the skilful aid and kindly sympathy of the late Mr. 

 J. H. Oswald Brown, I would not have been able to have finished 

 this book, even in its present imperfect form. Since the year 1884 

 we laboured together on this subject The pleasure in knowing 

 that the work, after innumerable corrections and revisions, is at last 

 done, has lost more than half its charm, from the fact that I cannot 

 share it with him. He had finished the most of the illustrations 

 before his sad and untimely death last autumn. The sketches which 

 he left were completed by Mr. Frank Hobden, to whom I tender 

 my best thanks. 



Junior Army and Navy Club, 



Si. James's Street, S.W. 



24/A May, 1893. 



