House Dogs and Sporting Dogs: Their Varieties, Points, Management, Training, Breeding, Rearing and Diseases

House Dogs and Sporting Dogs: Their Varieties, Points, Management, Training, Breeding, Rearing and Diseases.

A practical Victorian-era manual on domestic and sporting dogs, covering breed varieties, desirable points, management, training, breeding, rearing, and common diseases. A substantial portion is devoted to the breaking and training of dogs used for shooting and hunting, making it particularly relevant to collectors of sporting literature, field sports, gun dogs, and early canine husbandry. With a Edward Russell Wilbur sporting-book bookplate.

1861. London: John Van Voorst. 12mo.(4" x 6.75") xii, 260, 16 pp. Full greeen textured cloth with embossed rule framing boards, gilt lettering centered to upper board. Spine with gilt lettering. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, head and foot of spine ruffled with small closed tears, boards rubbed. Large engraved bookplate of Edward Russell Wilbur, an author and publisher of sporting books, to front pastedown. Light thin dampstain to head of first two leaves, a few spots of foxing seen towards rear of text, internally clean. Rear hinge starting, mesh visible, still, a secure binding. Ads at the rear of text dated "London December 1860". A considerable portion of the work is devoted to directions from breaking and training every type of breed of dog used in shooting and hunting.