Item #103729 The Dog Book. A Manual on the Dog - His Origin, History, Varieties, Breeding, Education and General Management in Health and Disease. Wesley MILLS.

The Dog Book. A Manual on the Dog - His Origin, History, Varieties, Breeding, Education and General Management in Health and Disease

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1898 (second edition)/ 1891.

Octavo (215 x 145 mm), xvi, 408 pages with 39 illustrations plus numerous plates (mainly full-page line drawings).

Cloth lightly sunned and rubbed; top edge slightly marked; endpapers offset and lightly marked; an excellent copy.

With the ownership details (July 1902) of Evan Kyffin Thomas (1866-1935), South Australian journalist and newspaper proprietor. Tipped in on the flyleaf is a short note in the owner's hand: 'Little Peter died - Friday, July 11, 1902 - aged five months - everyone loved him'. It took us a little while to realise it was more the stuff of poignancy than tragedy.

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