Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats: A Humorous Tale. Written Principally by a Lady of Ninety
Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1885.
Price: $300.00
Hardcover. First edition thus (originally published in 1823). Octavo. 20pp. Original gilt-stamped decorated brown cloth. Edited, with additional verses, by John Ruskin, and with new illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Illustrated with twenty-two woodcuts. Front fly loose and laid in, hinges cracked, extremities worn, else very good. Children's nursery rhymes in this scarce edition. Schuster & Engen: 62 1e, on Whatman paper.
Item #356634
John Ruskin
birth name: John Ruskin
born: 2/8/1819
died: 1/20/1900
Biography
English writer, critic, and artist who championed the Gothic Revival movement in architecture and the decorative arts and had a strong influence upon public taste in art in Victorian England. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore