THE DOG MEN OF GILLING WEST. By Geoff Milburn.

2005 1st edition print on demand paperback. 8vo paperback (149 x 210mm). Pp220. B/w photographs, illustrations and maps.

This book is "the result of 30 years of genealogical sleuthing [and] is a book which does not easily git into any one particular genre. The main theme is four famous dog men from Gilling West who were national giants in their time. Rich Henry Brown a co-director of Shoolbred and Co. in London sold bull dogs to royalty while Tom Raper was the Prince of Slippers for the Waterloo Cup. George Raper was Britain's greatest dog judge and journalist who bred out the Yorkshire Terrier in Victorian times and crossed the Atlantic on over thirty occasions. He also famously won foot races running backwards."