The Vintage Dog Scrapbook - The Italian Greyhound

A keepsake miscellany for the dog-minded, set among vintage photographs of the smallest and most elegant of the sighthounds.

The Vintage Dog Scrapbook collects the essays, anecdotes, poems and literary excerpts dog people have always written about dogs - the devotion, the absurdity, the quiet grief - and prints them among photographs of the Italian Greyhound drawn from rare breed volumes in our library. The writing belongs to dogs at large; the pictures belong to the breed.

Small sighthounds of this stamp were companions in the ancient Mediterranean and came into their own in Renaissance Italy, where princes kept them and painters could not leave them out. Anne of Denmark, Frederick the Great and Queen Victoria all owned one.

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 small sighthound
• Short pieces made for dipping into, at any hour of the evening