📚 Horses

The animal that carried civilisation: breeding and horsemanship, and the long partnership from the steppe to the racetrack.

Below are the 10 works carrying the subject horses in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The gentleman's pocket-farrier	William Burdon	1730	67
	Markhams maister-peece	Gervase Markham	1615	43
	Text book of veterinary medicine	James Law	1896	34
	Shy Boy	Monty Roberts	1999	19
	Eyewitness	DK Publishing	2000	16
	Horse	Juliet Clutton-Brock	1992	15
	The man who listens to horses	Monty Roberts	1996	15
	The history of the Omega psi phi fraternity	Dreer, Herman	1940	1
	A city horse	Unknown author	2004	1
	Horses on the farm	Rose Carraway	2013	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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