The Equine F.F.V.’s: A study of the evidence for the English horses imported into Virginia before the Revolution
Fairfax Harrison , 1928, privately printed by Old Dominion Press, Richmond Virginia, red cloth boards showing some shelfwear, 184 pgs., laid paper, 1 color plate w/tissue guard, 18 b&w plates (1 fold-out separated on fold but present), else very good. Inscribed: “Presented by the author Fairfax Harrison”, stamp of previous owner above.

Compilation of evidence identifying early importers and breeders of thoroughbred horse in Virginia by “….well known magnates, . . .merchants, . . . (and) sport loving planters of moderate circumstances, often descended from the earliest adventurers, who bred blood horses in order to be able to wager their tobacco on them.” Unique research.