Dame Wiggins of Lee, and her seven wonderful cats : a humorous tale written principally by a lady of ninety /

Dame Wiggins of Lee, and her seven wonderful cats : a humorous tale written principally by a lady of ninety /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Imprint:	Sunnyside ; Orpington ; Kent : George Allen, 1885.
Description:	iv, 20 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Nursery rhymes -- 19th century. Children's poetry -- 19th century. Cats -- Juvenile poetry. Grandmothers -- Juvenile poetry. Cats. Children's poetry. Grandmothers. Nursery rhymes. Juvenile works. Poetry.
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's copy Gift of Barbara and Bill Yoffee, AB '52.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8128576

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Other uniform titles:	Barbara and Bill Yoffee Collection.
Other authors / contributors:	Pearson, Mrs. Sharpe, Richard Scrafton, -1852. Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901.
Provenance:	Bound in pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt.
Notes:	"With twenty-two woodcuts" --T.p. First edition: London : A.K. Newman, 1823. Original, woodcut, engraved 1823 frontispiece and title page added. The woodcuts which illustrate the folllowing nursery rhymes have been facsimiled with exceplary care and admirable skill by Mr. W. H. Hooper, from whose which were given coloured by hand in the edition of 1823." --Preface 1823 edition ascribed to Richard Scrafton Sharpe and Mrs. Pearson. Cf. The works of John Ruskin, edited by E.T. Cooke and A. Wedderburn, v. 2. Pages in the story are printed on one side only.

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Call Number:	PZ163.R91D36 1885
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