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| Our tom cat and his nine lives | ||||
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| Author |
Limner, Luke (pseud John Leighton) |
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| Title |
Our tom cat and his nine lives |
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| Description |
Style: Pictorial|Publishers binding|Cat; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Red; Edge: Unspecified |
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| Date | Binding: 19c | |||
| Medium | Decorative Technique: Printed/other transfer process; Cover Material: Paper, printed | |||
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Shelfmark: 012807de69 |
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| Place of creation | Binding: England | |||
| Object history | Text: [1849]; London; Unspecified | |||
| Notes | Designed by John Leighton. Measures 145x110x7mm. Blue endleaves. Rebacked 1995. At the base of the upper cover is printed: "Plain 1/-; coloured 2/6". The illustrations are hand coloured. Re-backed 1995. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. The covers are paper pasted over boards. The upper cover is printed in red and black. A Tom Cat is seated in the centre, hatted, with a feather held in his left paw against his lips. The Tom is surrounded by books. The letters of the words "/ Our Tom/" above his head are printed to resemble books on a shelf. The word "/ cat/" is printed on a large book with fore-edge clasps and metal tips on the fore-rdge corners. Four other cats climb and play amongst leaves and plants around the centre piece. The lower cover is printed in red and in black, showing titles of other works by Luke Limner. Text copyright Edmund M B King and available under a CC0 license. | |||
| References |
See E M B King, Victorian Trade Bindings, 1830-1880: A Descriptive Bibliography, London, 2002, n99. Pantazzi, Sybille. Four Designers of English Publishers' Bindings, 1850-1880 and Their Signatures. [Off-print from Bibliographical Society of America vol.55] P.273. Gives a date of 1848 for the work. |
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