Accession number:
PML 89018
Published:
New York : G. Routledge & Sons, 416 Broome Street ; London : Messrs. S.W. Partridge & Co., 9 Paternoster Row , [187?]
Description:
[4], 170, 16 p. : ill. (engravings) ; 21.5 x 17.5 cm
Credit:
Gift of LIncoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes:
"Watson and Hazell, Printers, London and Aylesbury"--verso of t.p.
Publisher's advertisement on 16 pages following the text.
Thirty full-page engraved illustrations, including frontispiece, printed on one side only, and numerous vignettes, including t.p. vignette, variously signed: "After Sir E. Landseer", Herrick del., H. Weir, R.H. Moore, W.H. Pigott, J.W., J. Greenaway, J. Johnston, Fellmann, A.T. Elwes, R. Kretschmer, and W.J. Webb.
Frontispiece and t.p. framed by rules, printed in red. Text printed within double rules.
Half title.
"To Walter, from Papa - Xmas, 1873"--inscription on fly-leaf.
Binding:
Publisher's green morocco-grain cloth, blocked in gold, black, and blind, with a color lithograph of a cat inlaid on front cover; with beveled edges and yellow endpapers.
Provenance:
From the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
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