Victorian Champion Dogs

Published by © Hugh Evelyn 1965; 8 chromolithographs from The Illustrated Book of The Dog by Vero Shaw (1881).
Printed on high white matt cardstock of 134 gm/sm². 
Size: c. 26 cm x 21½ cm (10½″ x 8½″) but image size may vary slightly. Images shown are scans.
Prints are STANDARD size. Shipping cost is the same for up to 10 prints of the largest size in an order – see Shipping and Returns

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  • Basset Hounds 1872

    Basset Hounds 1872

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    Basset Hounds, 1872 (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

    Published 1967 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; From a series of chromolithographs painted for The Illustrated Book of the Dog, by Vero Kemball Shaw in 1881
    Original 1881 book published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co (“Cassells”)
    Size: 26 x 21.5 cm [10 ½ ″ x 8 ½ ″]  may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
    Printed on on medium paper (c. 115 g/sm2
    Print  is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns

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  • Bulldogs 1876

    Bulldogs 1876

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    Bulldogs, 1876  (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

    Published 1967 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; From a series of chromolithographs painted for The Illustrated Book of the Dog, by Vero Kemball Shaw in 1881
    Original 1881 book published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co (“Cassells”)
    Size: 26 x 21.5 cm [10 ½ ″ x 8 ½ ″]  may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
    Printed on on medium paper (c. 115 g/sm2

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  • Three Dachshunds from 1881

    Dachshunds 1873-5

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    Dachshunds  (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

    Published 1967 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; From a series of chromolithographs painted for The Illustrated Book of the Dog, by Vero Kemball Shaw in 1881
    Original 1881 book published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co (“Cassells”)
    Size: 26 x 21.5 cm [10 ½ ″ x 8 ½ ″]  may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
    Printed on on medium paper (c. 115 g/sm2

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  • English Setter Dog

    English Setter (1877)

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    English Setter, 1877  (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

    Published 1967 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; From a series of chromolithographs painted for The Illustrated Book of the Dog, by Vero Kemball Shaw in 1881
    Original 1881 book published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co (“Cassells”)
    Size: 26 x 21.5 cm [10 ½ ″ x 8 ½ ″]  may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
    Printed on on medium paper (c. 115 g/sm2

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  • Foxhound

    Foxhound

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    Foxhound  (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

    Published 1967 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; From a series of chromolithographs painted for The Illustrated Book of the Dog, by Vero Kemball Shaw in 1881
    Original 1881 book published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co (“Cassells”)
    Size: 26 x 21.5 cm [10 ½ ″ x 8 ½ ″]  may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
    Printed on on medium paper (c. 115 g/sm2

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  • Gordon Setter

    Gordon Setter 1872

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    Gordon Setter, 1872  (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

    Published 1967 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; From a series of chromolithographs painted for The Illustrated Book of the Dog, by Vero Kemball Shaw in 1881
    Original 1881 book published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co (“Cassells”)
    Size: 26 x 21.5 cm [10 ½ ″ x 8 ½ ″]  may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
    Printed on on medium paper (c. 115 g/sm2

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  • Pointer 1871

    Pointer 1871

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    Pointer, 1871  (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

    Published 1967 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; From a series of chromolithographs painted for The Illustrated Book of the Dog, by Vero Kemball Shaw in 1881
    Original 1881 book published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co (“Cassells”)
    Size: 26 x 21.5 cm [10 ½ ″ x 8 ½ ″]  may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
    Printed on on medium paper (c. 115 g/sm2

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  • Yorkshire Terrier, Italian Greyhound and Pug

    Yorkshire Terrier, Italian Greyhound and Pug

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    Yorkshire Terrier, Italian Greyhound and Pug  (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

    Published 1967 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; From a series of chromolithographs painted for The Illustrated Book of the Dog, by Vero Kemball Shaw in 1881
    Original 1881 book published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co (“Cassells”)
    Size: 26 x 21.5 cm [10 ½ ″ x 8 ½ ″]  may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
    Printed on on medium paper (c. 115 g/sm2

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Victorian Dogs

The Illustrated Book of the Dog

These 8 Hugh Evelyn Prints are reproductions of some of the 28 chromolithographs from The Illustrated Book of the Dog by Vero Kemball Shaw (“assisted by leading breeders of the day”) which was first published in London in 1881 by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co (“Cassells”).
It had an appendix on canine medicine and surgery, by W. Gordon Stables. It will cost you over £1,000 to buy an original edition today – the book shown here was for sale at $1,750 from a bookseller in New York – and it was a second edition, although prices for early editions have come down a bit more recently!
It was only the fourth book dedicated to dogs ever published in Britain with illustrations – it contained over 92 coloured chromolithographs.
The book was the first to show portraits of the Airedale Terrier and the first colour illustrations of the Bedlington, Dandie Dinmont, Irish, Yorkshire and Fox Terriers, Basset Hounds, Retrievers and some other breeds.