[WEIR, HARRISON]. Our Cats and All About Them: Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured. Turnbridge Wells: R. Clements and Company, 1889.
FIRST EDITION, cloth-bound, hardcover, octavo (20cm x 13cm x 3.5cm), pp. viii, 248. English text with illustrations throughout - a specially bound copy with blank leaves bound-in intersecting the text presumably for the taking notes. Publisher's original cloth with gilt spine titles, blue endpapers, portrait frontispiece, title-page vignette, profusely illustrated throughout with charming drawings of different types of domestic cats, rear index in double columns. Printed by Charles Dickens and Evans, Crystal Palace Press. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Slight rubbing and marking to covers. Interior very well-preserved with old annotations to a few blank leaves, previous owner name erased on front pastedown. Scarce.
