Best in Show: The Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Today

First edition, first impression.  xii, 260, profusely illustrated in full colour.  Brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine.  Tan endpapers.  4to.  Cloth just a tad pushed in at the spine tips else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  In its original glossy, illustrated dust wrapper, not price clipped, a little bumped on extreme edges. 

Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name held at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT and The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston Texas between May 2006 and January 2007,  A beautifully produced book featuring more than sixty works by illustrious artists such as Titian, Stubbs, Gainsborough, Landseer, Warhol and David Hockney, all portraying dogs in their artworks, together with four essays discussing the dog in art from the 16 century onwards.