M0017948: 1486 description of a greyhound and the title page from Caius: Of Englishe Dogges, 1576

Date:
April 1960
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/160/30
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M0017948: 1486 description of a greyhound and the title page from Caius: <i>Of Englishe Dogges</i>, 1576. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced October 2020: Description of greyhound and title page of book on dogs.

Description

Reproductions of pages from 15th and 16th century works about dogs. On the left is a description of a greyhound from the Book of St. Albans, 1st edition, 1486. On the right is the title page to Caius, John: Of Englishe Dogges, 1576. Reproduced in Ash, Edward C: Dogs: their history and development, London : E. Benn limited, 1927

Publication/Creation

April 1960

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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