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Published by George Routledge, London, 1910
Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: VG-. WAIN Louis (illustrator). 1st Edition. 24pp. Undated but1910. Pictorial boards, slightly grubby and worn on the edges. 20 coloured plates.Repaired short tears to the edges of pages 8, 18, 20, 23, not encroaching on the pictures. A nice copy of a very scarce title.
Published by George Routledge & Sons, Limited, London, 1911
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Quarter green cloth over color pictorial, heavy-card stock boards. Some soiling to boards, upper corners creased. Tall octavo. Collating [2], 4-23, [1, blank]. With twenty full-page color plates, including frontispiece. In all an excellent copy. At the end of the nineteenth century, Louis Wain (1860-1939), the Edwardian cat artist, became a household name as an illustrator of cats, whom he depicted in all sorts of activities, from skating and playing cricket to driving motor cars, attending dances, and playing musical instruments. "He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves" (H.G. Wells). Wood 36. Dale, p. 76.
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd, London, 1910
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Publisher's quarter red cloth over full color pictorial boards. Quarto (10 1/8 x 8 1/4 in; 258 x 212 mm). Twenty-four verso-only leaves with twenty large full color illustrations by Louis Wain. Small closed tears to bottom edge of leaves 19 and 22, small tears to half title at staples, boards a little soiled, and scuffed at edges. Otherwise a very good copy of this extremely scarce Wain title. One of the more colorful Wain titles. "In 1910, Routledge published Two Cats at Large, a 'book of surprises, by Louis Wain, with verses by S.C. Woodhouse.' Two kittens, Albert and Tom, meet various strange-looking monsters on their travels, including the Gollifrog, the Grabberchox and the Salleyinouralleygator. There are some very strange-looking cats in this book as well" (Dale). Dale 204.