Reviews

"…different….beautiful enough to grace any coffee table…from its sumptuous dust jacket photo through to the final page…superbly laid out and designed…history of the breed…fascinating footnotes…. All in all this book is a treasure."

Simon Parsons, Editor 'Dog World'.

"This is an intriguing and interesting pictorial record of influential British Rough Collies from the 1860's to the present day. A coffee-table book that can be dipped into at anytime, with interesting text, charts featuring principal sire and dam family lines, and lots of pictures of Cockie (1868), Shamrock (1870) and the great Trefoil (1873) right through to our present day champions."

Aileen Speding (Antoc), Rough Collie Breed Notes, 'Dog World'.

"The amount of work and research that has gone into this book is quite awesome. It will be an important historic document for many years to come".

Hazel Hunt (Rifflesea), UK.

"The book is excellent. I thought it well laid out and historically interesting, a researcher's dream."

John Hamshere (Hamshere Galleries, London).

"…it is wonderful… the lay-out is superb, it really is THE book on Collies."

Eva-Maria Kramer, (Collie Revue), Germany

"The book is tremendous- very impressive and I'm sure it will be a great success. Congratulations on a superb project - I give it 10/10!"

Sheena Dunlop (Garbh), UK.

"Your new book is stunning! Congratulations to you three. What work-what research. I can follow the book so easily and so many dogs' names are familiar. It must be the pride of the UK - the pictures
are beautiful, even the old ones printed up so nicely."

Kathy Peters (Hatherley Collies), USA.

"Thank you ladies for a wonderful publication, beautifully presented. It's a treasure and I cannot put it down!!"

Val Geddes (Ingledene), UK

"No detail has been spared to produce this most wonderful recognition of the Rough Collie. The information given with each year is so full of pedigrees, photographs and footnotes, that you cannot help but become immensely interested in the breed…This book should grace the shelves of all lovers of the breed, and indeed anyone who loves 'good books'."

Book World International/Dog World Bookshop, UK www.dogbookreviews.com

"It is a fabulous book for all Collie lovers - my greatest compliment to the editors. It should be 'A MUST' to own this book!"

Ada Norts (Perada Collies), Denmark.

"Richly illustrated…gives a superb overview of the development of the Rough Collie in Great Britain… fascinating compilation of material."

Anke van Hasenhorst-Lehmkuhl (Silverdale Collies), Germany.

"For people like me, who love collie history, 'Rough Collies of Distinction' is a mine of information with beautiful pictures of the pillars of the breed, their stories and pedigrees, plus comments on the dogs made by experts of the breed. A real treasure!"

Alex Carvalho (Lakefield), Brazil

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