202 printed pages. Vignette engravings of animals by Duffy Ayers, throughout. Signed by the author in ink with a message on the title-page. 138x 200 mm. Original grey cloth; spine with gilt titling. Complete with original grey, orange and white, unclipped dust-jacket designed by Eric Ayers (some edge wear and a short tear on the back). Second impresion. William Llewelyn "Buster" Lloyd-Jones (1914–1980) was a British veterinary practitioner, including to Winston Churchill. In his autobiography, Buster said that ‘the men went off to war and the women to war work, the children were evacuated; with the family gone there was no place for the family pets. All over the country they were put to sleep in their thousands’. The destiny of so many animals urged Buster to acquire Clymping Dene near to Feltham Park, a 1930s detached house set in 10 acres of grounds, that became home to a menagerie of pets including cats, dogs, monkeys, goats, donkeys and a horse.