argaret Osborne’s ‘The Collie’ may have been the first breed book to grace my
shelves, but I was soon avidly scouring the bookstalls for further literature. This was the period I acquired my collecting habit, with anything on the breed, be it book, published correspondence or critique, carefully preserved for future reference.
New publications were added as they became available, but these were to infrequent to satisfy this enthusiast, so I turned my attention to out of print books, spending time hanging around the likes of Doggie Hubbard’s shop, and I still retain the hand written list of breed monograms he suggested.
Serious general canine books, containing major chapters on British Herding Breeds have been collected for a number of years, and more recently an interest in canine art has turned my attention in this direction, with volumes covering the subject being amongst my more recent additions.
Whilst I still have some way to go before attaining my goal of owning at least one copy of every English language book ever published on the breed, the Collie Tree library houses an impressive collection of breed related literature including several scarce volumes.
