Author: Taylor, George B.
Title: Man's Friend, the Dog. A Treatise Upon the Dog, with Information As to the Value of the Different Breeds, and the Best Way to Care for Them.
Description: New York: Frederick A. Stokes Compay, 1891. 1891. - 12mo, 6-1/2 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide. Light brown cloth backed with a darker brown backstrip & spine, titled in silver on the spine with a vertical silver decorated roulette on the front and rear covers. Titled with a vignette of a dog in gilt on the front cover. The covers are rubbed and soiled with some speckling along the front edge of the front cover. [viii] & 65 pages, with a publisher's device decorating the title page. The rear hinge is starting. The pages have occasional soiling. Very good.

First edition.

Taylor dedicates his book "To the Westminster Kennel Club of 1877, the women who were exhibitors at its first Bench Show, Charles Lincoln, the Rev. J. Cumming Macdona, William Lort, Esq. F.R.G.S. and to all whose efforts to improve and elevate the dog have been crowned with such eminent success.."

Among some of the contents are brief essays on such topics as "Your dog must fit your home", "An objectionable dog ordinance system", "Dogs that are fitted for city life", "The giant pets of race", "The choice and cost of a dog", "The dieting of a home dog", "Training the home dog", "Ailments and nostrums", "Breeding and consanguinity", etc. Good .

Keywords: DOGS; NATURAL HISTORY; NATURE; ANIMALS; CANINE; MAN'S FRIEND, THE DOG; A TREATISE UPON THE DOG, WITH INFORMATION AS TO THE VALUE OF THE DIFFERENT BREEDS, AND THE BEST WAY TO CARE FOR THEM; GEORGE B. TAYLOR; FIRST EDITION; 19TH CENTURY; NINETEENTH CENT

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