The Vintage Dog Scrapbook - The Welsh Springer Spaniel

A keepsake miscellany for the dog-minded, set among vintage photographs of the oldest and rarest of the British spaniels.

The Vintage Dog Scrapbook gathers essays, anecdotes, poems and literary excerpts on living with a dog - the loyalty, the mud, the affection that outlasts it all - and prints them among photographs of the Welsh Springer drawn from rare breed volumes in our library. The text is written for dogs in general; the pictures are the breed's own.

Red and white, and descended from the land spaniels that sprang game for hawk and net long before the gun, the Welsh Springer was recognised in its own right by the Kennel Club in 1902. It has kept its working shape ever since.

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