The Bulldog - A Monograph - Hardcover

by Edgar Farman (Author)

The most thoroughly researched early book on the English Bulldog - and the one every pedigree researcher still reaches for.

Edgar Farman's The Bulldog - A Monograph, first published in 1899, is the great Victorian survey of the breed: its history, its points, its breeding, its celebrated dogs and the kennels that produced them. What sets it apart is its apparatus. Farman indexed every person named in the book and every dog named in it, separately, alongside a general index and a chapter on the illustrations - which is why it remains a working reference for anyone tracing a Bulldog pedigree back into the nineteenth century.

It was written in the decades when Britain's Bulldog Club, founded in 1875, was consolidating the modern standard and steering the breed away from its baiting past.

This edition features:

• The great 1899 monograph on the breed - history, points, breeding and kennels
• Separate indices of every person and every dog named in the volume
• A dedicated chapter on the illustrations, with the plates reproduced
• A primary reference for nineteenth-century pedigree research