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THE KINGS AND THE CATS

Written by John Hannon
Illustrated by Louis Wain
Published by Burns & Oates in 1908

THE KINGS AND THE CATS
Written by John Hannon. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 379626
1st. 1908. Hardback. Good condition.

Munster Fairy Tales For Young And Old. 3 stories. Red Cloth, gilt title and border. Attractive b/w plates, some cats but not in Wain's usual anthropomorphic style. xiii + 78 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers soiled. Foxing throughout, mainly to endpapers. Erased child's pencil writing to front endpaper. Initial 'F' in ink to margin of page 2. Some grubby marks to pages and to rear side of some plates but generally contents still clean. A desirable copy of a very scarce Wain item.

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Front cover

Cover of THE KINGS AND THE CATS by John Hannon

Contents

  • For the Children by Katharine Tynan
  • The Tellers of These Tales
  • The Kings and the Cats, and The Wise Old Woman of the Wicklow Hills
  • John and the Four Footed Beast
  • Old Grey Norris Of Warland