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[ANIMALS] The Book of the Cat

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Frances Simpson

The Book of the Cat: with 12 coloured plates, and nearly 350 illustrations in the text from photographs and drawings

London, Paris, New York and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1903.
First Edition.
28.5cm x 21cm. viii, 380 pages, [4] adevertisements, 12 colour plates. Original publisher's cloth.

Minor discolouration to cloth. Minor foxing. Very Good Condition.

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