Ten years later the Bulldog Club (by then incorporated) issued an improved Standard, that aimed at 'tidying up' the Bulldog, so as to render him a more presentable dog for the shows, while at the same time carefully preserving all the really esential features of the old English Bulldog. There have been minor revisions from time to time, which have resulted in only negligible departures from the original, with the sole exception that in Great Britain the permissible weight has been raised ten pounds. In 1986 the Kennel Club revised the Standard, with the aim to explain things in plainer English.