RUSKIN, John, editor

Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats: A Humorous Tale Written Principally by a Lady of Ninety, Edited, with Additional Verses, By John Ruskin, L.L.D., Sunnyside

Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1885. Kate GREENAWAY. Cloth. 8vo; [ix], 20pp; gilt-stamped on brown cloth over board, vignette of a cat painting a picture to front; tan & white fleur-de-lis patterned endpapers; deckle fore-edge and bottom; owner’s bookplate to front pastedown; 22 woodcut illustrations, printed one side only; facsimile 1823 title page; covers sunned, scuffing to cover edges & corners, paper on back hinge cracked but binding holding, a few smudges; very good minus. Schuster & Engen 64 (1d). Very good. Item #1027

First published in 1823, this issue includes wonderfully humorous illustrations by Kate Greenaway for each verse.

Price: $300.00