A collection of images I found interesting or pretty or just… images… I… found.
From The Illustrated Book of the Dog by Vero Kemball Shaw, 1881From the book A History and Description of the Modern Dogs (Sporting Division) of Great Britain and Ireland by Rawdon B. Lee, 1893From The Illustrated Book of the Dog by Vero Kemball Shaw, 1881
A saluki, by a former name:
From the book Dogs of All Nations by Walter Esplin Mason, 1915
I sneaked in a background beagle:
From The Book of Dogs, An Intimate Study of Mankind’s Best Friend by Ernest Harold Baynes and Louis Agassiz Fuertes, 1919From the book A History and Description of the Modern Dogs (Sporting Division) of Great Britain and Ireland by Rawdon B. Lee, 1893From the book A History and Description of the Modern Dogs (Sporting Division) of Great Britain and Ireland by Rawdon B. Lee, 1893From Everyman’s Book of the Dog by A. Croxton Smith, 1909From the book British Dogs at Work by A. Croxton Smith, 1906From the book A History and Description of the Modern Dogs (Sporting Division) of Great Britain and Ireland by Rawdon B. Lee, 1893From the book A History and Description of the Modern Dogs (Sporting Division) of Great Britain and Ireland by Rawdon B. Lee, 1893From The Illustrated Book of the Dog by Vero Kemball Shaw, 1881
Flat-coated, wavy-coated or here, smooth-coated retrievers:
From the book Kennel Secrets, How to Breed, Exhibit and Manage Dogs by Ashmont, 1904From The Illustrated Book of the Dog by Vero Kemball Shaw, 1881From the book A History and Description of the Modern Dogs (Sporting Division) of Great Britain and Ireland by Rawdon B. Lee, 1893From the book Dogs of All Nations by Walter Esplin Mason, 1915From the book A History and Description of the Modern Dogs (Sporting Division) of Great Britain and Ireland by Rawdon B. Lee, 1893
An elegant, lactating Dupuy pointer:
From the book Dogs of All Nations by Walter Esplin Mason, 1915
Spotted Dick:
From the book British Dogs, Their Varieties, History, Characteristics, Breeding, Management and Exhibition by Hugh Dalziel, 1879
People have been calling their dachshunds Fritz for awhile:
From the book British Dogs, Their Varieties, History, Characteristics, Breeding, Management and Exhibition by Hugh Dalziel, 1879From the book British Dogs at Work by A. Croxton Smith, 1906From the book Dogs and All About Them by Robert Leighton, 1910From the book A History and Description of the Modern Dogs (Sporting Division) of Great Britain and Ireland by Rawdon B. Lee, 1893From Everyman’s Book of the Dog by A. Croxton Smith, 1909From The Book of Dogs, An Intimate Study of Mankind’s Best Friend by Ernest Harold Baynes and Louis Agassiz Fuertes, 1919
And a good scruffy to close things out:
From The Illustrated Book of the Dog by Vero Kemball Shaw, 1881
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