Australian Terrier - A Complete Anthology of the Dog

<p><strong>The first breed made in Australia to win recognition abroad - a rough little ratter with a settler's constitution.</strong></p><p><em>Australian Terrier - A Complete Anthology of the Dog</em> gathers the chapters devoted to the breed in the kennel literature of the 1930s among them Edward C. Ash's <em>The Practical Dog Book</em> (1930) Stanley West's <em>The Book of Dogs</em> (1935) and Walter Hutchinson's <em>Hutchinson's Dog Encyclopaedia</em> (1935). They describe a dog built from the rough-coated terriers that settlers carried out from Britain kept on farms and stations for vermin first shown in Melbourne in 1868 and admitted to the Kennel Club register in 1933 - the moment these writers were watching.</p><p>Points temperament working character celebrated dogs and their pedigrees are all here with the original photographs reproduced throughout.</p><p>This edition features:</p><ul><li>The breed chapters from the kennel encyclopaedias of the 1930s by the authorities of their day</li><li>The breed at the moment of British recognition described by contemporaries</li><li>Points temperament and working character with the pedigrees of celebrated winners</li><li>The original photographs of the leading dogs of the era reproduced throughout</li></ul>