ELIAS VAIL TRAINS GUN DOGS: COVERING THE POINTING BREEDS, THE SPANIELS AND NON-SLIP RETRIEVERS. By Ella B. Moffit.

(1937) 1948 reprint. 8vo (137 x 209mm). Pp219,iv[ads]. B/w photographs. Green cloth, upper board and spine titled.

"Our title is self-explanatory. Realizing the shortage or complete lack of useful works on training gundogs of the spaniel and retriever groups, especially for shooting under American conditions, and feeling the urge to supply this need, I appealed to Elias Vail. I knew that [his information] would be authentic and of infinite practical value as a contribution to more and better gundogs, and, of greater value yet, to more and better trainer-owners". Chapters include: Temperament of sporting dogs; English Setter; Irish Setter; Gordon Setter; Pointer; Wirehaired Pointing Griffon; German Short Hair; English Springer Spaniel; Cocker Spaniel; Clumber Spaniel; Labrador; Chesapeake; Irish Water Spaniel; Golden Retriever; Flatcoated; Curly; Selection of subject for training; The amateur trainer; Terminology; Preface to training notes; Training; Retrieving; Field training; Rules and exceptions; Handling Spaniels on running birds; Odds and ends - handling retrieving of woodcock, how to start in water, retrieving from water, how to handle spaniels on fur, how to handle pointing breeds on fur; Field trials and field trial dogs; Gun dogs; Spaniel field trial judges; Spaniel field trial guns; Housing the shooting companion; Game raising.