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Laughing Elephant, 2002-03-07. Cards. New.

Unknown, London, No date, c. 1920s. Not applicable. Very Good Condition. From an unknown title. Unmounted. Image size approx. 13 x 18 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Louis Wain; Inventory No: 362023..

Robert Culley, London, 1907. 1st Edition. Not applicable. Very Good Condition. An original colour print from Friskers and His Friends, 1907 With a professionally cut mount, ready for framing in an A5 sized frame. Image size approx. 7 x 10 cms. Size: 10 x 13.5 cms. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Louis Wain; Inventory No: 361874..

Unknown, London, No date, c. 1920s. Not applicable. Very Good Condition. An original colour print, from an unknown title. Unmounted. Image size approx. 14 x 19 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Louis Wain; Inventory No: 362034..

Shaw & Co, London, 1920. 1st Edition. Not applicable. Very Good Condition. An original colour print from In Louis Wain Land. With a professionally cut mount, ready for framing in an A4 sized frame. Image size approx. 14 x 19 cms. There is some loss to the print, bottom right corner. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Louis Wain; Inventory No: 362014..

Unknown, London, No date, c. 1980s. Not applicable. Very Good Condition. A modern colour print, from an unknown title. Unmounted. Image size approx. 13 x 18 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Louis Wain; Inventory No: 362042..

Robert Culley, London, 1907. 1st Edition. Not applicable. Very Good Condition. An original colour print from Friskers and His Friends, 1907 With a professionally cut mount, ready for framing in an A5 sized frame. Image size approx. 7 x 10 cms. Size: 10 x 13.5 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Louis Wain; Inventory No: 361883..

Shaw & Co, London, 1920. Not applicable. Very Good Condition. An original colour print from In Louis Wain Land. Unmounted. Image size approx. 14 x 19 cms. Some creasing. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Louis Wain; Inventory No: 362030..

Unknown, London, No date, c. 1920s. Not applicable. Very Good Condition. From an unknown title. Unmounted. Image size approx. 13 x 18 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Louis Wain; Inventory No: 362021..

Unknown, London, No date, c. 1920s. Not applicable. Very Good Condition. From an unknown title. Unmounted. Image size approx. 13 x 18 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Louis Wain; Inventory No: 362020..

Illustrated London News, London, 1889. First Edition. Disbound. Very Good Condition. Woodcut engraving. Note; this is an original item separated from the larger volume, not a reprint or copy. For posting outside the UK this item will be folded due to its large size, or substantial extra postage than our standard rates will be required. Size: 1 page size 29 x 40 cms, approx image size 22.5 x 30.5 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Louis Wain; Inventory No: 408771..

Laughing Elephant, 2002-03-07. Cards. Like New.

Canongate Books, 2021-11-09. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Canongate Books Ltd, 2021. Hardcover. New. 256 pages. 10.24x10.35x1.14 inches.

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons. Fair with no dust jacket. [c1915?]. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards rubbed and faded. Cloth spine very faded, rubbed and dampstained. Front hinge broken with spine mull visible, and adhesive tape stains from a repair attempt along margins of gutter. Contemporary gift inscription on front endpaper "To Ethel wishing her a Happy Christmas from Mum & Dad". Front free endpaper and frontispiece partly detached. Complete. Moderate foxing. ; A scarce Louis Wain title. No date [c1915?]. [48] pages + colour frontispiece + 1 other colour plate. Numerous in-text b&w or single colour illustrations of cats by Louis Wain. The colour frontispiece is also by Louis Wain, the other colour plate is not (it is by Sidney Hayes). Patented black furry cat on front board. Papered boards with cloth spine. Page dimensions: 258 x 194mm. First story is "The Holiday Home". "[. . .] And every cat has a history of some sort or another. We could not… Read More

Raphael, Tuck & Sons. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. undated, but a previous owner's inscription is dated 1920. also a stamp mark from the same person. the binding has been repaired and the top of the spine is torn. 3 of the 12 plates are missing and a few of the black and white illustrations have been neatly coloured in. the binding is strong.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: John F. Shaw & Co.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. [1913]. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's inscriptions dated 1915 on front endpaper and title page. Cloth rubbed away from along edges of boards. Lower corner of front board worn with 15mm loss of cloth across corner. Gutter split at rear hinge. One colour plate (cat playing croquet) with smudge mark and 14mm tear to lower corner. Otherwise plates very good and clean.; Scarce. No date [1913]. Pages unnumbered. [196] pages + 8 tipped-in colour plates (including frontispiece). 5 of the colour plates have cats as subjects, 2 have dogs, and 1 has cats and dogs (2 cats laughing at 2 dogs in the stocks). Also with numerous black and white illustrations, some full page. Red cloth boards with colour paper illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 245 x 183mm (9 5/8" x 7 1/4"). .

London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Montreal: Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd, 1910. Early edition. Very Good. A Very Good copy of this uncommon Louis Wain title. Illustraded through-out in Wain's iconic style, with 8 color plates and numerous black and white illustrations within the text. Gift inscription dated Xmas 1912. At the end of the nineteenth century, Louis Wain (1860-1939), the Edwardian cat artist, became a household name as an illustrator of cats, whom he depicted in all sorts of activities, from skating and playing cricket to driving motor cars, attending dances, and playing musical instruments. "He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves" (H.G. Wells). Very Good.

Springfield [Massachusetts]: McLoughlin Bros., Inc, 1920. First American edition. Original quarter brown cloth over color pictorial glazed boards (plain tan rear board). Corners and board edges a little worn, inner hinges cracked. Quarto (10 x 8 inches; 256 x 205 mm.). 252 unnumbered pages (256 including covers and inside covers). Title -page illustrated by Louis Wain and eight other illustrations by Louis Wain including one double-page full color, two other color illustrations and five others either tinted or black & white. Numerous other color, tinted and black and white illustrations by various other artists. The other stories in the book include many old favorites (some listed below). An acceptable copy of a book that we have never seen before. While not solely illustrated by Wain, the present includes a significant amount of his work. illustrations by Louis Wain include: 1. Cat playing the flute (title-page, black & white) 2. The Dandy Colored Cat (3/4 page , colored) 3. The Dandy Colored Cat… Read More

London: Burns & Oates, Ltd, 1908. First edition. Publishers red cloth, front cover ruled and lettered in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, plain endpapers. Spine ends a little worn, slight staining to upper cover . Quarto (9 7/16 x 6 3/4 inches; 240 x 171 mm.). Collating xiv, 78. Including monotone frontispiece and ten full- page monotone plates. Light marginal foxing, otherwise an excellent copy of this extremely unusual Louis Wain title. This is a fascinating little book with very unusual and atypical drawings by Louis Wain. The frontispiece The Wise Old Woman of the Wicklow Hills depicts a witch looking over her cauldron whilst two cats, one black and one white, look on... is at first glance more in the style of the Victorian artist, Sidney Sime. In fact throughout this volume only one of the eleven illustrations Little Fiss and the Wicked Enchanted Bull (facing page 40) is remotely similar to the Louis Wain that we all love, admire and enjoy. Dale, 93.