Cat's Pyjamas

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  1899a. 'Bantam and cats'

  Page from the article Animal friendship by Albert H. Broadwell. In the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature.
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  1916c. 'A happy family...' and 'A cat with a fox-cub which she adopted'

  Page from the article Strange friendships between animals by Frances Pitt. In the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature.
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  1916b. '...a most devoted mother'

  Page from the article Strange friendships between animals by Frances Pitt. In the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature.
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  1916a. 'A cat nursing a young ferret as well as her kitten'

  Page from the article Strange friendships between animals by Frances Pitt. In the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature.
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  1925. Trance cats

  From the Trance Painting envelope in the Harry Price Archive of Magical Manuscripts. 'Trance drawing of two cats by a "woman of weak intellect" at The Hague, who used both left and right hands simultaneously'.
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  1832. The Greatest Wonder in England is the Learned Cats!

  'Flyer for a performance by "learned cats" by Signor Cappelli at Bartholomew Fair' in the Harry Price Archive of Magical Manuscripts. Kitty tricks include grinding knives, roasting coffee and drawing water out of a well, with a wonderful domino-playing dog as a side act.
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  1889e. 'Properly marked Siamese cat'

  Illustration from Our cats and all about them ... described and pictured by Harrison Weir. In the General Special Collections.
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  1889c. 'The wild cat of Britain'

  Page from Our cats and all about them ... described and pictured by Harrison Weir. In the General Special Collections.
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  1889b. 'The brown tabby cat'

  Page from Our cats and all about them ... described and pictured by Harrison Weir. In the General Special Collections.
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  1889a. 'Miss Mary Gresham's Persian kitten, "Lambkin No. 2"'

  Page from Our cats and all about them ... described and pictured by Harrison Weir. In the General Special Collections.
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  1889d. 'Black and white cat'

  Big handsome boy from Our cats and all about them ... described and pictured by Harrison Weir. In the General Special Collections.
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  1805. An old ballad of Whittington and his cat

  Broadsheet ballad about Dick Whittington, thrice lord mayor of London, and his apocryphal cat. In the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature.
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  1866. '"Well then," the Cat went on'

  Obligatory illustration from Alice's adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. In the Durning-Lawrence Library, items related to Sir Francis Bacon.
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  1834. 'Felis maniculata' or the Egyptian cat

  Plate from The natural history of the felinae ... by Sir William Jardine. In the Durning-Lawrence Library, items related to Sir Francis Bacon. According to Ruppel, 'This cat, must in more than one respect, excite the interest of natural philosophers, as there can be no doubt but that from it is descended the domestic cat of the ancient Egyptians' (pages 239-240).