Author: Joyce Bellamy
Title: Hyde Park for Horsemanship
Description: London, JA Allen, 1975. First edition. Cloth. The bright first edition of this history of Hyde Park by Joyce Bellamy in the original dust wrapper. A story of London's Hyde Park from its earliest days as a Tudor hunting preserve through the Stuart period when the Park served as a race course and pleasure ground as well as a cavalry encampment. With description of the fortunes of equestrian sport in Hyde Park and the Park's contribution to the national and international development of horsemanship. Illustrated from contemporary sources. Written by Joyce Bellamy. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper.  From the library of Desmond Morris, a zoologist best known for his 1967 sociobiological work "The Naked Ape". Alongside achieving great acclaim as a zoologist, Morris was also known for being an ethnologist and surrealist painter, and for popular television programmes, including "Zoo Time". In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Desmond Morris's bookplate to front pastedown. Dust wrapper unclipped and excellent with minor soiling to wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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