The Vintage Dog Scrapbook - The Borzoi

A keepsake miscellany for the dog-minded, set among vintage photographs of the long-nosed aristocrat of the Russian steppe.

The Vintage Dog Scrapbook collects the essays, anecdotes, poems and literary excerpts that dog people have written about their own kind - the mischief, the devotion, the grief - and prints them among photographs of the Borzoi drawn from rare breed volumes in our library. The writing speaks for dogs in general; the pictures are the breed's alone.

Bred by the Russian nobility to course wolves across open country, and known in the West for decades as the Russian Wolfhound, the Borzoi was for centuries a dog that could not be bought, only given. The photographs here catch it in its late imperial pomp.

This edition features:

• Essays, anecdotes, poems and literary excerpts on dogs and dog owning
• Vintage photographs of the breed, taken from rare volumes in our own library
• A gift for the canine-inclined, and for the devotee of one particular sighthound
• Short pieces made for dipping into, at any hour of the evening