In Praise of Cats by Foster, Dorothy - 1974

Crown Publishers, 1974. Cloth. Fair/Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Daniel, Alan. Very large, thinner book, pink cloth with lighter spots at bottom front right and back, very bright gilt on spine, dark inide covers and adjacent end papers, 129 heavy stiff lightly browned pages, illustrations of cats throughout with works of literature by Strachey, Yeats, Noyes, Keats, Cowper, Belloc, Greenaway, D.H. Lawrence, Verlaine, Lovecraft and others. DJ has glossy stunning watercolor illustration of cat on pillow on front, spine and back. DJ badly worn and torn, taped along bottom back. Poor DJ/Fair book.