All Sorts of Comical Cats. Verses by Clifton Bingham. Illustrations by Louis Wain. London: Nister [1
All Sorts of Comical Cats. Verses by Clifton Bingham. Illustrations by Louis Wain. London: Nister [1902]. First edition. Cloth backed pictorial boards. Illustrated by Wain with color cover, mounted chromolithographed frontis plus 2-color and line illustrations throughout the text.Wain, Victorian-era illustrator of anthropomorphic cats, has often been held up as the classic example of a schizophrenic artist. Wain’s famous felines were born of his efforts to amuse his wife as she was dying of breast cancer. Wain would draw their cat, Peter, with eyeglasses, pretending to read. -- source link
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