Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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have, with the ex-ception of the Clumber and the Irish WaterSpaniel (who is not, despite his name, atrue Spaniel at all), a common origin,though at a very early date we find themdivided into two groups—viz. Land andWater Spaniels, and these two were keptdistinct, and bred to develop those pointswhich were most essential for their dif-ferent spheres of work. The earliest men-tion of Spaniels to be found in Englishliterature is contained in the celebrated Master of Game, the work of EdwardPlantagenet, second Duke of York, andMaster of Game to his uncle, Henry IV., towhom the work is dedicated. It waswritten between the years 1406 and 1413,and although none of the MSS., of which 268 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. some sixteen are in existence, is dated,this date can be fairly accurately fixed, asthe author was appointed Master of Gamein the former and killed at Agincourt inthe latter year. His chapter on Spaniels,however, is mainly a translation from theequally celebrated Livre de Chasse of
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THE SLEEPING SPORTSMAN.From the Picture by GABRIEL METZU (1630-67LShowing a typical Springer of the Seventeenth Century.Photogiupk by J. Caswell-Smith, Oxford Street, W. Gaston Comte de Foix, generally known asGaston Phoebus, which was written in1387, so that we may safely assume thatSpaniels were well known, and habituallyused as aids to the chase both in Franceand England, as early as the middle of thefourteenth century. Chaucer, too, who wasborn in or about 1328, mentions Spanielsin The Wif of Bathes Prologue, For asa Spaniel, she wol on him lepe, and of the many other old writers who refer tothem the most important are Dame JulianaBerners, in the Book of St. Albans,George Turberville in the Book of Faul-conrie, Nicholas Cox in the GentlemansRecreation, Gervase Markham in Hun-gers Prevention, and Arcussia, all beforethe end of the seven-teenth century. In the eighteenth andearly part of the nine-teenth century theSpaniel was describedby many writers onsporting subjects ; butthere i

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