Cats in Books: A Celebration of Cat Illustration Through the Ages
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0810940450 / Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1997
Explores the representation of cats in books and manuscripts spanning more than one thousand years, including the creations of Edward Lear, Beatrix Potter, Dr. Seuss, Bernard Kliban, and Jim Davis
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Within this volume's beautifully illustrated pages are some of the finest renderings of cats as they have appeared in books over the centuries. Some, like Sir John Tenniel's classic Cheshire Cat for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, are well known; others, such as the cats shown in the margins of the seventh-century illuminated manuscript the Lindisfarne Gospels, may be new to many readers.From ancient Egypt onward, all cat illustrators have endeavored to capture the character of this notoriously elusive animal. Among those whose work is reproduced in Cats in Books are Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Durer, Arthur Rackham, and Aubrey Beardsley; here too are images from Edward Gorey's playful version of T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and Fred Marcellino's best-selling rendering of Charles Perrault's Puss in Boots.Lifelong cat lover Rodney Dale places the cats - and the illustrations - in historical and literary context.
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