THE WORKING TERRIER. By David Brian Plummer. First edition.

1978 1st edition. Large 8vo (158 x 241mm). Pp226. B/w photographs, b/w illustrations by Martin Knowelden. Brown boards, spine titled in silver-gilt.

This is Brian Plummer's famous compendium of working terrier breeds, with much practical information and accounts of his own and others' experiences. Chapters include; The leading terrier breeds - Jack Russell, Lakeland, Border; The less common working terriers - smooth-coated coloured Northern, fell, cairn, Sealyhams, fox terrier, Dandie Dinmont, Bedlington, Irish, Kerry Blue, wheaten, Glen of Imaal, Australian, Staffordshire bull, English bull, Norwich and Norfolk, Airedale, Yorkshire, West Highland white, Scottish or Aberdeen, Welsh, Skye, Manchester, summary - the choice of working terrier; The quarry - entering to quarry, the rat, stoats and weasels, the fox, the badger, the Scottish wildcat, mink, coypu, the otter, rabbit hunting; Care and showing of working terriers - caring for a working terrier, leptospirosis, mange, wounds, the Fell and Moorland Working Terrier Club, working terrier shows, working tests and trials. Appendices - Jack Russells working in America, by Ailsa M. Crawford, and The American Working Terrier association, by Patricia Adams Lent.