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The robber kitten.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894, author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's poetry.
- Picture books for children.
- Cats--Juvenile poetry.
- Cats.
- Brigands and robbers--Juvenile poetry.
- Brigands and robbers.
- Violence--Juvenile poetry.
- Violence.
- Bicycles--Juvenile poetry.
- Bicycles.
- Children's accidents--Juvenile poetry.
- Children's accidents.
- Goats--Juvenile poetry.
- Goats.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (16 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : McLoughlin Brothers, [1897]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Poem by Robert M. Ballantyne.
- Shaped book cut in the shape of the standing robber kitten reaching for his sword.
- "No. 77.--The robber kitten--shaped. Size, 5 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches. This book contains fourteen pages, of which six and the cover are in full colors. The balance is filled up with the text of the story in verse, and illustrations in black and white [AAS copy small illustrations are colored in red and black ink.] The cover is by lithographic process in colors and gold."--McLoughlin Brothers' catalogue (1897), page 27.
- Cover included in pagination.
- Cover and illustrations chromolithographed.
- Illustrations signed: H [id est, Charles J. Howard?].
- "Bennie the 'scorcher.'"--poem, pages [11-15].
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- OCLC:
- 905335916
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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