The Vintage Dog Scrapbook - The English Springer Spaniel

A keepsake miscellany for the dog-minded, set among vintage photographs of the great flushing spaniel of the shooting field.

The Vintage Dog Scrapbook collects essays, anecdotes, poems and literary excerpts on dogs and the people who love them, and prints them among photographs of the English Springer Spaniel drawn from rare breed volumes in our library. The text is written for dogs in general; the pictures are the breed's alone.

Separated from the Cocker by the Kennel Club in 1902 - before which the two came from the same litters, sorted by size and quarry - the springer remains Britain's foremost flushing dog, and one of the busiest, muddiest, most cheerful animals ever to come through a hedge.

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 working spaniel
• Short pieces made for dipping into, at any hour of the evening