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    By A Croxton Smith
    London   Adam and Charles Black
    9" by 6.5" xii, 132pp
    A very scarce charming work on the working lives of dogs in Britain, illustrated with colour plates.
    By A Croxton Smith

    1906 British Dogs At Work

    London   Adam and Charles Black
    9" by 6.5" xii, 132pp
    A very scarce charming work on the working lives of dogs in Britain, illustrated with colour plates.
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    Description

    Colour Plates, Decorative Binding, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

    A very scarce work.

    A charming work looking into how various breeds of dogs are put to work in Britain.

    Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and nineteen colour plates. Collated, complete.

    Written by A. Croxton Smith and illustrated by G. Vernon Stokes.

    Publisher's adverts to the rear endpaper and rear pastedown.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. Externally, smart, with a few marks to the boards and slight bumping to the head and tail of spine. Spine is slightly sunned. Internally, front hinge is slightly tender but firm. Plates facing pages 38, 60, and 78 have detached but are all present, and the plate facing page 74 is tender but firmly attached. A few light spots and light offsetting to the first and last few pages, but otherwise, pages are bright and clean.

    Good

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