POPE, ALEXANDER, JR. | Celebrated Dogs of America. [Boston: S.E. Cassino, 1879]

POPE, ALEXANDER, JR.

Celebrated Dogs of America. [Boston: S.E. Cassino, 1879]

10 parts in one, oblong folio (14 x 19 in.). 20 mounted chromolithographed plates, each accompanied by a leaf of explanatory text. Contemporary half purple morocco and purple cloth covered boards, marbled endpapers.

A rare American work on dogs

"The style of the present work is entirely original...The pictures are painted from life by Alex. Pope, Jr., whose Upland Game Birds and Water Fowl of the United States, and wood carvings of Game Birds, have made him familiar to the sportsmen art lovers of this country...The Celebrated Dogs of America will be issued monthly, in parts composed of two plates, 16 1/2 by 20, and accompanying letter-press. The series will be completed in ten parts, at $2 per part. The plates will be exact reproductions of the water-color paintings, and will be superior to anything heretofore produced of this nature...The work will be sold only by subscription..." (prospectus).

REFERENCE:

Bennett 90; H.M. Chapin, The Peter Chapin Collection of Books on Dogs (Williamsburg, Virginia: 1938) 1426; McGrath 212