The Springer Spaniel - A Complete Anthology of the Breed

The dog that springs the game: Britain's foremost flushing spaniel, in the writing of its own period.

The Springer Spaniel - A Complete Anthology of the Breed gathers the early writing on the breed from the rare kennel books in our library. The name describes the job - springing game for the hawk, the net and later the gun - and the working shape of the dog follows from it. The Kennel Club separated the springer from the cocker in 1902, though the strains behind it run back much further, and...