The Louis Wain Kittenbook.
WAIN, L.,
Sold by Goltzius, Lisse, Netherlands
AbeBooks Seller since 16 March 2018
Used - Hardcover
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Add to basketSold by Goltzius, Lisse, Netherlands
AbeBooks Seller since 16 March 2018
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketLondon: Anthony Treherne & Co. Ltd., 1904. (first edition 1903) hardcover, ca. 8x8 cm. Very good condition. Louis Wain. Contains 20 full page coloured wood engravings by Louis Wain. Each egraving is presented opposite the story which is in verse and all pages are only printed on one side of the leaf. All illustrations are of cats / kittens. Full linen binding with title in red and an illustration in black and blue on the front cover. Plain end papers. Printed by Chorley & Pickersgill, Amberley House, Norfolk Street, W.C. Works: Leeds. 87 pp plus two pages of book adverts. A used children's book in good condition. The book is complete, the cover is neat (though somewhat stained) the construction solid and the pages clean. Louis William Wain (5 August 1860 - 4 July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings of anthropomorphised cats and kittens. Wain was born in Clerkenwell, London. He sold his first drawing in 1881 and the following year gave up his teaching position at the West London School of Art to become a full-time illustrator. He married in 1884 but was widowed three years later. In 1890 he moved to the Kent coast with his mother and five sisters and, except for three years spent in New York, remained there until the family returned to London in 1917. In 1914, he suffered a severe head injury in a horse-drawn omnibus accident and ten years later was certified insane. He spent the remaining fifteen years of his life in mental hospitals, where he continued to draw and paint. Some of his later abstract paintings have been seen as precursors of psychedelic art. Wain produced hundreds of drawings and paintings a year for periodicals and books, including Louis Wain's Annual which ran from 1901 to 1921. His work also appeared on postcards and advertising, and he made brief ventures into ceramics and animated cartoons. In spite of his popularity and prolific output, Wain did not become wealthy, possibly because he sold his work cheaply and relinquished copyright, and also because he supported his mother and five sisters. His period of greatest popularity was in the years before World War I when he portrayed Edwardian society at leisure. His cats dressed as humans took part in sports, went to the seaside, tea parties, restaurants and celebrated Christmas, with activities sometimes ending in mishap and mayhem. Wain's world was "funny, edgy and animated".
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