The Vintage Dog Scrapbook - The Flat Coated Retriever

A keepsake miscellany for the dog-minded, set among vintage photographs of the black, feathered retriever of the Edwardian shoot.

The Vintage Dog Scrapbook gathers essays, anecdotes, poems and literary excerpts on the business of living with a dog, and prints them among photographs of the Flat Coated Retriever drawn from rare breed volumes in our library. The writing is for dogs at large; the pictures are the breed's own.

Fixed in England in the 1870s, and one of only two retriever breeds in the first Kennel Club stud book, the flat coat was the great shooting dog of the Edwardian estate before the Labrador took its place. It is having a quiet revival - and it photographs beautifully.

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 gun dog
• Short pieces made for dipping into, at any hour of the evening