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Illustrated by Lucy Kemp-Welch. Leather bound. H: 8" W: 5 3/4" D: 1 1/2" 1 Volume. Anna Sewell, Black Beauty. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco with linen boards. Gilt-tooling on the covers and gilt-tooled horses on the raised band spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated frontispiece with twelve colored pictures and many line drawings throughout by Lucy Kemp-Welch. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1939.

Black Beauty is a novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate bestseller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, long enough to see her first and only novel become a success. It is one of the best-selling books of all time.