The Vintage Dog Scrapbook - The Deerhound

A keepsake miscellany for the dog-minded, set among vintage photographs of the rough-coated hound of the Highlands.

The Vintage Dog Scrapbook collects the essays, anecdotes, poems and literary excerpts that dog people have written about dogs - the affection, the mischief, the long companionship - and prints them among photographs of the Deerhound drawn from rare breed volumes in our library. The writing is for dogs in general; the pictures are the breed's own.

Bred to course red deer over Highland ground and once reserved to men of rank, the Deerhound came close to disappearing after the clan system fell, and was gathered back from the surviving stock in the 1830s. Every photograph here is a picture of a rescued inheritance.

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 Highland hound
• Short pieces made for dipping into, at any hour of the evening