The Vintage Dog Scrapbook - The French Bulldog

A keepsake miscellany for the dog-minded, set among vintage photographs of the bat-eared companion of the Paris salons.

The Vintage Dog Scrapbook gathers essays, anecdotes, poems and literary excerpts on life with a dog - the comedy of it, the loyalty, the ache at the end - and prints them among photographs of the French Bulldog drawn from rare breed volumes in our library. The text is for dogs everywhere; the pictures are the breed's.

The breed began, improbably, with the Nottingham lace-makers who bred a toy bulldog for company, and travelled to France with them when the mills mechanised. In Paris it became the pet of artists, writers and society women - the dog you see in these photographs.

This edition features:

• Essays, anecdotes, poems and literary excerpts on dogs and dog owning
• Vintage photographs of the breed, taken from rare volumes in our own library
• A gift for the canine-inclined, and for the devotee of one particular small companion
• Short pieces made for dipping into, at any hour of the evening