Captain Graham The Irish Wolfhound 1885

The Irish Wolfhound Archives

Capt. Graham's
The Irish Wolfhound 1885

The first editions of Capt Graham’s THE IRISH WOLFHOUND and Rev E Hogan’s THE IRISH WOLFDOG were printed separately. Graham’s in 1885 and Hogan’s in 1897.
In 1939 The Hogan and Graham books were reprinted as one, entitled THE IRISH WOLFDOG by The Irish Wolfhound Club of Ireland. In 1972 THE IRISH WOLFDOG , Hogan & Graham was reprinted again by The Irish Wolfhound Club of America and The Irish Wolfhound Club of Ireland

                             THE IRISH WOLFHOUND
                                       BY
                     CAPTAIN G. A. GRAHAM
                                      1885

Captain Graham kept two copies of this early edition; one is in almost perfect condition, with his signature inside, the other very well used with comments, additions and inserts. This is the copy reproduced here. The cover is copied from the best copy.

At the beginning of his work copy Captain Graham taped in extra blank pages where he pasted numerous drawings with captions. These are reproduced here. The book is 8.5 inches high x 5.5 inches wide. Cover; gold writing on olive green with red binding on spine.

The actual photographs of “Colin” and “Scot” in the index pages must have been added after publication.   Capt Graham did not put them into his own copies but they are in Mr Baily’s copy. These pages are copied from Mr Baily’s copy. Mr Baily’s copy is signed inside ‘John F. Baily, Dublin’, in the centre of the page, and in the top corner ‘R J May’. It appears that Dr May received Mr Baily’s copy.


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Elizabeth Murphy would like to hear from anyone who can read Capt Graham's writing.

Do not forget to click on text to enlarge.

Then we could add a printed version

Elizabeth's e-mail is

carrokeel_ecm@yahoo.ie

(note the underscore between carrokeel and ecm

Thank you.

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