The Well-Versed Cat : poems of celebration.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goldstrom, Robert, illustrator.

Mattingly, Virginia, editor.

Running Press, publisher.

Running Press Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Running Press miniature edition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cats--Poetry.

Cats.

Miniature books--Specimens.

Miniature books.

Genre:

Poetry.

Specimens.

Artists' books -- Pennsylvania.

Miniature books (Printing)

Miniature books

Penn Provenance:

Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)

Physical Description:

127, [1] pages : color illustrations ; 84 mm

Distribution:

London : Running Press,

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Running Press, 1993.

Contents:

Introduction

Catalogue / Rosalie Moore

The Thing About Cats / John L'Heureux

from Jubilate Agno / Christopher Smart

Bravo / Philip Dacey

from The Rat-Catcher and Cats / John Gray

from Peter / Marianne Moore

The Cat and the Moon / W. B. Yeats

from Loving and Liking / William Wordsworth

Gray Thrums / Clara Doty Bates

from A Child's Primer for Natural History / Oliver Herford

That Cat / Ben King

Cat / J.R.R. Tolkien

from The Song of Mehitabel / Don Marquis

from Poor Matthias / Matthew Arnold

Cats / Eleanor Farjeon

Pangur Bán / Anonymous

Woman and Cat / Paul Verlaine

Familiarity Dangerous / William Cowper

Uncanny / Elliot Walker

One O'Clock / Katherine Pyle

The Mysterious Cat / Vachel Lindsay

from Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat / Thomas Gray

To My Cat / Rosamund Marriott Watson

from The Retired Cat / William Cowper

from To A Cat / Algernon Charles Swinburne

from Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten / Oliver Herford

An Old Cat's Confessions / G. P. Cranch

from The Kitten and the Falling Leaves / William Wordsworth

To Mrs. Reynold's Cat / John Keats

from Hodge, the Cat / Sarah Chauncy Woolsey

from The Owl and the Pussy-Cat / Edward Lear

from The Sphinx / Oscar Wilde

On the Death of a Cat / Christina Rossetti

The Cat of Cats / William Brighty Rands.

Notes:

"A Running Press Miniature Edition™"--Title-page verso.

"This book has been bound using handcraft methods, and Smyth-sewn to ensure durability."--Colophon.

"The dust jacket was designed by Toby Schmidt and illustrated by Mimi Vang Olsen. The interior was designed by Lili Schwartz and illustrated by Robert Goldstrom. The text was edited by Virginia Mattingly. The poems were researched by Gregory C. Aaron. The text was set in ITC Caslon and Signet Roundhand by Deborah Lugar."--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.

Running Press copies 1 & 2 have dustjackets retained.

Running Press copy 2 includes "London" in publisher statement.

ISBN:

1561383112

9781561383115

OCLC:

31295036