The Basset Hound - A Dog Anthology (A Vintage Dog Books Breed Classic)

Essays, anecdotes and verse on the pleasures of dog owning, printed among vintage photographs of the low, long-eared trailing hound.

The Basset Hound - A Dog Anthology gathers the affectionate, comic and occasionally mournful writing that dog people have always produced about dogs, and sets it alongside period photographs of the breed taken from rare volumes in our library. It is a gift book rather than a manual - made for dipping into.

French in origin and named for its lowness to the ground...