Black Beauty – The Autobiography of a Horse

Author Anna Sewell British
Illustrator Robert Livingston Dickey American
Publisher Barse & Hopkins American
1911
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  • Title: Black Beauty – The Autobiography of a Horse
  • Author: Anna Sewell (British, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk 1820–1878 Norfolk)
  • Illustrator: Robert Livingston Dickey (American, Marshall, Michigan 1861–1944 Cleveland, Ohio)
  • Publisher: Barse & Hopkins (New York, NY)
  • Date: 1911
  • Medium: Illustrations: commercially printed in color
  • Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 6 x 1 1/2 in. (22.2 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: Gift of Kit Smyth Basquin, in memory of her mother, Virginia Gibbs Smyth, 2012
  • Object Number: 2012.402.1
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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