The all-round German gun dog, described by the men who first put it to work - pointing, retrieving and tracking in a single hard-driving animal.
The German Pointer - A Complete Anthology of the Dog draws its chapters from the great kennel reference works of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, among them J. Sidney Turner's The Kennel Encyclopaedia (1908), Walter Hutchinson's Hutchinson's Dog Encyclopaedia (1935) and Hubert Hutton's Hunting Dogs - Their Training and Care (1938). Between them they set out the physical points, the temperament and the particular field abilities of a dog built by nineteenth-century German sportsmen who wanted one companion for fur and feather alike.
Celebrated dogs are discussed and pictured, pedigrees of the leading winners are given, and the original photographs are reproduced throughout - a compact record of the breed as the shooting field first came to know it.
This edition features:
- Chapters gathered from period kennel encyclopaedias and sporting manuals, by the authorities of their day
- Photographs of the leading dogs of the era, reproduced from the original volumes
- Breed history, points and temperament, with the pedigrees of celebrated winners
- Essential reading for owners, breeders and anyone drawn to the working gun dog