dogs withers guy (1 Ergebnisse)

First edition. Royal octavo. 62 pages. Introduction by John Attenborough. 28 black and white photographs of dogs, each from a different breed. On page 31 is Winston Churchill's French Poodle Rufus. Period binding of full dark blue leather, top edge gilt.From the library of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, with the armorial bookplate of Princess Alice on the front pastedown.Laid in: Supplication of the Black Aberdeen by Rudyard Kipling, The Medici Society, London, 1927, first separate edition, 8-page booklet illustrated by G.L. Stampa; eight-stanza poem about a dog; the printed greetings slip bears an inscription to the Duke of Gloucester from Florence Portal.Head and tail of spine faintly rubbed. Near fine.