SOLVED. Novel about last of a dying breed of Dog/humans set in 19th Century New York. [s]

[Roger]

I remember reading this book several years ago but cannot remember the title. From my memory it is written as series of interviews with the last survivor of a Germanic dog/human breed that had flourished in the 19th Century but was about to become extinct

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Mass market fiction or literary fiction?
Author female or male?
Remember the cover?

[Roger]

Literary fiction
no sure about author
Picture as if a painted portrait of a great dane or similar dressed in 19th century clothes sitting in an armchair in a library

[Roger]

Found it!
Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis

[SamSpayedPI]

Lives of the Monster Dogs for the link