31/07/2024
The first reliable description of variety in our terriers is provided by Taplin in The Sportsman's Cabinet (1803):
Terriers of the best blood, and most determined ferocity, are now, by the prevalence of fashion, bred of all colours: red, black (with tanned faces, flanks, feet, and legs) and brindled sandy; some few brown pied, white pied and pure white; as well as one sort rough and wire-haired, the other soft, smooth, and delicate, the latter not much inferior in courage to the former, but the rough wire-haired breed is the most severe biter of the two.
Taken from: Sporting Terriers
by David Hancock. UK, 2011
