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8vo. 8.7 5x 5.75 inches. xii + 221 pp. Bound in original navy cloth, gilt, in price clipped dust wrapper, which has some edge browning. Flyleaves browned, a little sunning of board edges and light foxing of title page and page edges; otherwise a very good copy. Ownership name on first free endpaper. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece and by 16 pages of black and white plates. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. The history of the R.S.P.C.A. and the personalities associated with it, from its early nineteenth century origins, with chapters covering the law, the humane slaughter of animals, horses, the veterinary service, sports, experiments on animals and the organisation of the Society, By Arthur William Moss (b.1891). A very rare title.