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A cat alphabet and picture book for little folk (p. [31])
A cat alphabet and picture book for little folk (p. [31])
TitleA cat alphabet and picture book for little folk (p. [31])
AuthorUnknown
PublisherDodge Publishing Company
Publisher LocationUnited States -- New York -- New York
Publication Dateca. 1910s
PrinterVillafield Press (Glasgow, Scotland)
IllustratorWain, Louis, 1860-1939
Image Production ProcessRelief prints
NotesIllustrated with color relief prints.
All illustrations signed by Louis Wain.
An alphabet book that features cats and kittens wearing clothes and acting like humans. At the end of the book are short rhymes about various occupations that cats (if we imagined it) might have such as gardener or cook.
This page depicts a colour-blind cat in a painter's smock painting a green wall brown.
Contextual NotesLouis Wain was an English artist best known for his drawings of anthropomorphized large-eyed cats and kittens.
Subjects (LCSH)English language -- Alphabet -- Juvenile poetry; Alphabet rhymes; Cats -- Juvenile poetry; Cats -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature; Occupations -- Juvenile literature
CategoryAlphabet books
Trades and Occupations
LanguageEnglish
Digital CollectionChildren's Historical Literature Collection
Digital ID NumberCHL1224
RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division
Repository CollectionChildren's Historical Literature Collection PE1155.W25 1910
Object TypeBook
Physical Description[36] p.: illustrated; 25 x 18 cm.
Digital Reproduction InformationPhotographed from original book in TIFF format using a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/EOS 400D, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2009.
Exhibit ChecklistExhibit Checklist B.18
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