Wain (Louis) In Cat and Dog Land with Louis Wain
£250
London, Raphael Tuck, [c.1906].
No. 6256. 4to. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards.
Twelve chromolithographed plates and numerous line drawings by Louis Wain (1860–1939), whose anthropomorphic cats made him a household name and whose later mental illness was dramatised in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021), with Benedict Cumberbatch. An appealing example of an uncommon Raphael Tuck colour production.
In stock
Some toning to pages, a few minor repaired tears to for example title-page; covers a little worn at extremities with some minor rubbing, spine replaced, but overall very good.
12 full-page chromolithographed illustrations, numerous two-tone illustrations.
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