COCKER

The Cocker Spaniel takes its name from the woodcock, the bird it was bred to flush from the English hedgerows in the seventeenth century. From those practical origins it became the dog of choice for Victorian parlors, Edwardian portraits, and the children's books of countless generations, a creature whose silken ears and soft gaze made it the canine archetype of tenderness.

Walt Disney's Lady gave the world its most enduring romantic icon in canine form; Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel Flush inspired an entire book by Virginia Woolf; and Nixon's Checkers became the most famous dog in American politics. From the bedrooms of nineteenth-century novels to the pages of contemporary lifestyle magazines, the Cocker remains the dog of intimacy and warmth.

The Cocker edition is the most romantic in the REMUS Collection. A dusty rose linen cover, the breed's lustrous wavy coat reimagined through extreme macro photography, each strand of feathered fur captured as if lit by candlelight, each glance a small love letter. A book that returns the most photographed Spaniel in history to its truest register: gentle, immediate, and infinitely warm.