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1878 The Dogs of the British Islands: Being a Series of Articles on The Points of Their Various Breeds and The Treatment of the Diseases to Which They are Subject.
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Description
Early Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
The third edition. First published in 'The Field' newspaper.
Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and forty-five monochrome plates. Collated, lacking plates facing pp. 130 and 131.
This beautifully illustrated work was written by John Henry Walsh, an English sports writer who often wrote under the pseudonym 'Stonehenge'. The work provides a detailed study on dog breeds from the British Islands, discussing sporting dogs, hounds, sheep, cattle dogs and much more.
In the publisher's original cloth.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth. Externally worn with marks to the boards, rubbing and bumping to the extremities with small closed tears and slight loss to the cloth to the head and tail of the spine, fading to the spine, and cockling to the front board. Front hinge failed and rear weak. Internally binding weak in places, with the odd page disbound but present and lacking two plates. Pages generally bright with the odd spot.
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