• Field & Stream's gun dog editor for 25 years, Bill Tarrant, said, "Joan Bailey's . . . book . . . is all inclusive, definitive, fast-paced, joyfully put together, and has the answers to Griffons each of us has yet to think about asking."

• Outdoor Life's hunting dog editor, Larry Mueller, says about Bailey, "Because of her truth and honesty, Griffons and their breeders will benefit from this book for all time . . . This is THE breed book for ALL breeds."

• Veteran editor of The Gun Dog Supreme, Joan Bailey, provides the definitive, factual, long awaited book about Griffons that tells not only their fascinating history, but also the testing, judging and breeding of versatile hunting dogs. Included is an extensive appendix and bibliography, plus more than 200 photographs covering the period from 1870 to 1995, in 30 chapters, 463 pages.