Books on history of dressage – any recommendations?

dressage by henry wynmalen, he started the dressage competition thing in england, his books are very readable, he must have been a great bloke, a and c black are the publishers i think, he was also involved in the start of combined training and horse trials in cluding badminton, there is a biographical section about his life, he also wrote horse breeding and stud management, one of my favourite books, and although a bit outdated still a sort of bible on the subject
 
Someone (Scarlett on here, actually :) ) bought me http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Europ...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1294085109&sr=8-1 for Xmas. It's a lovely book to look at but also has a well written if not particularly detailed overview of the various Schools.

What are you looking for specifically? A historical/academic overview similar to the one you cited? More technical/instructional writings representative of the various Schools?
 
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These are great suggestions, thank you! I'd heard of Wynmalen and Haussman and that Great European Schools book looks beautiful.

As to what I'm looking for – I have a broad remit. I suspect there won't be many academic-y books like the one I linked to (which is great and tells you a lot about the development of ideas of nation and how riding styles were linked to that). I'm especially interested in James Fillis, but I think I may be able to find scans of things he wrote on Archive.org. There's also a book on écuyers which I'm desperate to read, but I think will be hard to track down.
 
The definitive book must be Ecole de Cavaliere (?sp) by De La Gueriniere, not sure how/where you could obtain a copy though
 
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