[Purported First English Novel about a Dog]. The History of Pompey the Little; Or, the Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog.
London: M. Cooper, 1751. First Edition. London: , 1751. First edition. Purportedly the first English novel about a dog. Grolier notes this work is “one of the earliest examples of that type of satirical novel in which abuse is hurled at real persons through the medium of animals or inanimate.....