Dame Wiggins of Lee, and her seven wonderful cats : a humourous tale written principally by a lady of ninety. In the Sterling Library, first and fine editions of English literature.
Page from Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. In the Sterling Library, first and fine editions of English literature. Thomas Gray's tragicomic poem about the death of Horace Walpole's cat, Selima. She doesn't look happy to see Cerberus!
Page from Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. In the Sterling Library, first and fine editions of English literature. Thomas Gray's tragicomic poem about the death of Horace Walpole's cat, Selima.
Page from Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. In the Sterling Library, first and fine editions of English literature. Thomas Gray's tragicomic poem about the death of Horace Walpole's cat, Selima.
Plate from Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. In the Sterling Library, first and fine editions of English literature. Depicts Thomas Gray's tragicomic poem about the death of Horace Walpole's cat, Selima.
Title and first pages of Cats' Castle : with an account of how it was besieged and taken by the rats. Children's chapbook in the Quick Memorial Library, items related to the history of education.
Plate from Travels through the southern provinces of the Russian empire, in the years 1793 and 1794 translated from the German of P.S. Pallas, Vol. 1. In the M.S. Anderson Collection, writings on Russia printed 1525-1917. 'Represents a peculiar species of the domestic Cat' (page ix). A black cat Siamese hybrid perhaps?
Page from Book of the words of Whittington and his cat : the Drury Lane pantomime, 1884-5. In the Malcolm Morley Collection on 19th and 20th century theatre.
Page from Book of the words of Whittington and his cat : the Drury Lane pantomime, 1884-5. In the Malcolm Morley Collection on 19th and 20th century theatre.
Page from Struwwelpeter; or, Merry stories and funny pictures [by Heinrich Hoffmann]. In the Special Collections K10, children's educational books. Illustrations from the 1861 German edition, possibly embellished by Hoffmann from the original 1845 edition.
