Doggy Treats; Antique and Vintage Dog Books

Papa Poodle & other pets written by Juliana Horatia Ewing pictured by Richard André. 

Published by SPCK and E & J.B Young. With pretty chromolithography and tinted monochrome illustrations by R. Andre. Undated c1884. Three stories told in rhyme - Papa Poodle, the little master to his big dog and the burial of Linnet.

Puggie's grave by Hans Andersen  Published by Sockl & Nathan. Undated c1895. Beautiful chromolithography and tinted monochrome illustrations. The words ‘with kind love and all good wishes for a joyous New Year’ printed on the dust jacket.

A short, tragic tale about Puggie the Pug

 'We were staying in the country at a gentleman's seat, where it happened that the master was absent for a few days. In the meantime, there arrived from the next town a lady; she had a pug dog with her, and came, she said, to dispose of shares in her tan-yard. It was about a week after we arrived in the town, and put up at the inn. Our windows looked into the tan-yard, which was divided into two parts by a partition of planks; in one half were many skins and hides, raw and tanned. Here was all the apparatus necessary to carry on a tannery, and it belonged to the widow. Puggie had died in the morning, and was to be buried in this part of the yard...' 

Now for something more cheerful;

A day with Dopey written by Florence Royce 

Dopey and Dotty written by Florence Royce 

Two tail waggingly good doggy books! Dopey is a sweet little Pekinese and Dotty is her puppy. Six beautiful full page full colour plates in each by G. E. Studdy (of Bonzo fame). Published by John Crowther in 1943. 

The Mischievous Puppy written by Leslie Martin

Illustrated with full colour plates and sepia drawings by Ethel L Tanner. Published by Gale & Polden, 1917. Rags comes to stay with Big Mistress, Little Mistress and Master and causes all kinds of upsets. This particular puppy book has seen better days the binding is very fragile and several pages are partly detached, but it’s still a feast for the eyes. 

Note; For those of you who like the 'science bit' a chromolithograph is a coloured image printed by many applications of lithographic stones: An image is applied to a stone or zinc plate with a grease-based crayon. After the image is drawn onto stone, the stone is gummed with gum Arabic solution and weak nitric acid, and then inked with oil-based paints and passed through a printing press along with a sheet of paper to transfer the image to the paper. Colours may be added to the print by drawing the area to receive the colour on a different stone, and printing the new color onto the paper. Each colour in the image must be separately drawn onto a new stone or plate and applied to the paper one at a time. It was not unusual for twenty to twenty-five stones to be used. Wikipedia. 

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