Vintage Rough Bassets

~ YesBiscuit
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, 1897
From an article regarding an upcoming dog show in The Birmingham Daily Gazette (Birmingham, England) · November 28, 1892
The Westminster Budget (London, England) · March 15, 1895
Cambridge Independent Press (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England) · February 24, 1899
Above snipped from the book The Twentieth Century Dog (Sporting) by Herbert Compton, 1904
Two 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

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