The Vintage Dog Scrapbook - The Japanese Chin

A keepsake miscellany for the dog-minded, set among vintage photographs of the courtly little spaniel of Japan.

The Vintage Dog Scrapbook collects essays, anecdotes, poems and literary excerpts on dogs and the people who keep them, and prints them among photographs of the Japanese Chin drawn from rare breed volumes in our library. The text belongs to dogs in general; the pictures belong to the breed.

An aristocratic toy with a cat's poise and a courtier's manners, long known in Britain as the Japanese Spaniel, the Chin was a palace dog in Japan before it was ever a parlour dog in the West. The photographs here catch it in its late Victorian and Edwardian heyday.

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