From the book A History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain and Ireland: Sporting Division By Rawdon B. Lee, Illustrations by Arthur Wardle, V. 2, 1897From an article regarding an upcoming dog show in The Birmingham Daily Gazette (Birmingham, England) · November 28, 1892The Westminster Budget (London, England) · March 15, 1895Cambridge Independent Press (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England) · February 24, 1899Above snipped from the book The Twentieth Century Dog (Sporting) by Herbert Compton, 1904Two from Sporting Dogs; Their Points and Management in Health and Disease by Frank Townend Barton, 1910
And lastly, while this snippet doesn’t specify whether the bassets are rough or smooth coat, it deserves inclusion for the masterfully told anecdote:
From the book Sport is Where You Find It by Philip K.Crowe; illustrated by Paul Brown, 1953