Details

Subject(s)

• Animals—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Cats—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Children—Juvenile literature—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Cats—Juvenile literature—Pictorial works [Browse]

Ill

• Neilson, Harry B. (Harry Bingham), 1861-1941 [Browse]

Illustrator

• Rountree, Harry, 1878-1950 [Browse]
• Wain, Louis, 1860-1939 [Browse]

Publisher

• John F. Shaw and Co. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Inscriptions [Browse]

Summary note

Anthology of short stories and poems, most about animals or children, all accompanied by illustrations.

Notes

• Date from inscription in Cotsen copy.
• Cover illustration signed by Neilson; other engraved and chromolithograped illustrations thouut the book, signed by various illustrators, including Rountree and Wain.
• Princeton copy 1: Inscribed on front pastedown: "For Dear little Teddie, with all good wishes for a happy Exmas, 1913, from dear Auntie Rose, and Alffie Dolby."

Binding note

Publishers paper-covered boards, pictorial upper depicting the Jolly Fisher, a cat dressed in hobo attire; red cloth spine strip.

OCLC

1247664188

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