Below is a short but nonetheless interesting article on bulldog and French bulldog history from The Country-Side, February 27, 1909. I noticed the caption for the dog pictured reads “toy British bulldog” while the title describes the breed as “British toy bulldogs” and the opening sentence mentions the breed was also called “miniature” bulldogs.
I mean, the author could have ended the sentence after the phrase “a practice to be condemned” and left readers to assume he possessed the regular amount of compassion present in the majority of humans but instead he went on, apparently to clarify that that assumption would be incorrect.