Author: WAIN, Louis
Title: Big Dogs, Little Dogs, Cats and Kittens
Description: London: Raphael Tuck, 1903. Would you like to hear a secret which you must'nt breathe again.. Well the Cats and Dogs for miles around have bothered Mr.Wain" WAIN, Louis, illustrator. Big Dogs, Little Dogs, Cats and Kittens. London: Raphael Tuck, [1903]. First edition. Folio (13 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches; 342 x 250 mm.). Thirty-six unnumbered pages including pictorial title-page with R & S Trade Mark No. 5163. All pages illustrated, with eleven in full color including one double-page. Minimal browning to leaves, otherwise fine. Publisher's red cloth backed color pictorial glazed boards, front cover with title, rear cover with full page color illustration, pale green leaf design endpapers. Neat contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper dated July 4th 1904. The bare minimum of rubbing to the corners, otherwise fine. A remarkable survival of a scarce and wonderful Wain title - beautifully illustrated throughout. "Louis Wain's peak year for illustrated children's books was 1903. No fewer than 11 appeared, eight with the name 'Louis Wain' in the title. This alone is some measure of the 'draw' of his name. Collins published Kittenland and Comic Animals ABC; Tuck published Big Dogs, Little Dogs, Cats and Kittens, With Louis Wain to Fairyland, Louis Wain's Cats and Dogs, Louis Wain's Dog Painting Book, and Louis Wain's Cat Painting Book.." At the end of the nineteenth century, Louis Wain (1860-1939), the Edwardian cat artist who went mad, 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). "From 1883, Wain began to draw cats as they had never been drawn before, cats in humorous guises, in human situations, but always beautifully handled..[a]lthough he was sometimes forced to draw dogs before he became well-known!" (Houfe, The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914). Dale, 18. .
Keywords: Illustrated Books Cats Dogs
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Title: Big Dogs, Little Dogs, Cats and Kittens
Description: London: Raphael Tuck, 1903. Would you like to hear a secret which you must'nt breathe again.. Well the Cats and Dogs for miles around have bothered Mr.Wain" WAIN, Louis, illustrator. Big Dogs, Little Dogs, Cats and Kittens. London: Raphael Tuck, [1903]. First edition. Folio (13 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches; 342 x 250 mm.). Thirty-six unnumbered pages including pictorial title-page with R & S Trade Mark No. 5163. All pages illustrated, with eleven in full color including one double-page. Minimal browning to leaves, otherwise fine. Publisher's red cloth backed color pictorial glazed boards, front cover with title, rear cover with full page color illustration, pale green leaf design endpapers. Neat contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper dated July 4th 1904. The bare minimum of rubbing to the corners, otherwise fine. A remarkable survival of a scarce and wonderful Wain title - beautifully illustrated throughout. "Louis Wain's peak year for illustrated children's books was 1903. No fewer than 11 appeared, eight with the name 'Louis Wain' in the title. This alone is some measure of the 'draw' of his name. Collins published Kittenland and Comic Animals ABC; Tuck published Big Dogs, Little Dogs, Cats and Kittens, With Louis Wain to Fairyland, Louis Wain's Cats and Dogs, Louis Wain's Dog Painting Book, and Louis Wain's Cat Painting Book.." At the end of the nineteenth century, Louis Wain (1860-1939), the Edwardian cat artist who went mad, 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). "From 1883, Wain began to draw cats as they had never been drawn before, cats in humorous guises, in human situations, but always beautifully handled..[a]lthough he was sometimes forced to draw dogs before he became well-known!" (Houfe, The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914). Dale, 18. .
Keywords: Illustrated Books Cats Dogs
Price: US$ 2950.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 05514
- Book number: 05514
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