The red gun dog of Ireland, from ancestry to field trial - with a Cecil Aldin frontispiece of the great Sulhamsted champion.
Leonard E. Naylor's The Irish Setter - It's History, Temperament And Training, published in London in 1932, is a working breeder's book in eleven chapters: the ancestry and the famous old strains, the winners and the names that made them, how to choose a dog, the breed in the house, the standard description, training for sport and for field trials, the famous modern strains, hints on breeding and on showing, ailments and remedies, and a closing chapter on where the breed was going.
The frontispiece is Cecil Aldin's sketch of Field Trial Champion Sulhamsted Sheilin D'or - Sulhamsted being the dominant field-trial kennel of the interwar years, and Aldin a sporting artist collected in his own right.
This edition features:
The complete 1932 text in eleven chapters, from ancestry to field trialA frontispiece sketch by Cecil Aldin of Field Trial Champion Sulhamsted Sheilin D'orTraining for sport and for trials, with hints on breeding and showingPhotographs of the famous dogs of the interwar years