Description
Bridleways Through History
 Lady Apsley
First Edition published 1936
Hardback, green cloth, gilt lettering to spine
9 1/2″ X 6 1/2″, 391 pages plus index
Illustrated
with 45 sketches and 14 full-page drawings by Lionel Edwards, R.I. and a selection of b+ w photographs
The author talks of the history of hunting, and also has a lot of information on side saddle riding.
The books chapters titles are as follows:
The Beginning, Xenophon and the Greek Ideals, Charlemagne: The connecting Link, William the Conqueror and the Norman Kings, The Crusaders: and the Influence of the East, Gaston de Foix and His Livre de Chasse, Four women of the Renaissance: Anne of France: Margaret of Austria: Diane d Poitiers: Isabella of Spain, The Royal Hounds of France and “La Chasse Royale”, In Shakespear’s England, The Riding Schools of Europe, The Horses of the Stuarts, The Squires of England.
