For the canine enthusiast with an artistic bent, check out Dogs: History, Myth, Art by Catherine Johns...The symbiotic relationship between humans and canines goes back thousands of years, and there's plenty of art to document the journey in this handsome volume--from ancient times to the present.
   --Robin D. Schatz, Bloomberg News

Drawing from the immense art collection from the British Museum, Catherine Johns has assembled a wide selection of statues, paintings, mosaics, busts, jewelry, and more, to illustrate man's love and need of the dog. Johns provides a great history of the dog, and its near relatives, but the true beauty of this book is just the variety of ways dogs have been portrayed through the ages and how they have become such a part of our cultural history, regardless of the culture...The dog lover will find much to enjoy in this book, both informational, and artistic.
   --Sacramento Book Review

Catherine Johns is a retired curator of Romano-British collections at the British Museum.

Read More by Catherine Johns:

• Horses: History, Myth, Art