•The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 20 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.•Thomas Anstey Guthrie (8 August 1856 - 10 March 1934), was an English novelist and journalist, who wrote his comic novels under the pseudonym F. Anstey. The Talking Horse of F. Anstey is the first of a series of short stories by the author of Vice Versa. It is among the most original of the collection.