AMERICAN SPORTING DOGS. Edited by Eugene V. Connett.

1948 1st edition. Large 8vo (154 x 242mm). Ppxiv,549. B/w plates of paintings, b/w photographs. Blind-stamped publisher's logo to red cloth, gilt titles and list of authors' names to spine.

"Chapters by: Gerald M. Livingston, Gladys F. Harriman, John Scofield, Robert McLean, Francis J. Squires, Arthur W. Lindsey, Chetwood Smith, Walter Roesler, Paul Bakewell, III, Prentice Talmage, David Wagstaff, Edward H. Carle, Lewis F. Gingery, Henry L. Ferguson, J. Gould Remick, Leon F. Whitney, Raymond Hoagland, William F. Brown, Edward J. Loring, Muriel W. Jarvis, Theodore A. Rehm, D.B. Ruskin, and Thomas W. Merritt. Illustrated from paintings by Edwin Megargee and from photographs. The book begins with a chapter each on: The Background; Heredity in hunting dogs; Scent. A chapter each is then devoted to each of numerous breeds, arranged in the following parts: Bird dogs; Retrievers; Spaniels; Hounds. Each part also has two or three chapters on field trials and training and handling.