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Hard cover, 12mo, in red cloth, stamped in blind original publisher's cloth, and gilt design to front board, title in gold to the spine. All edges gilt, 133 pp., First Edition. Frontispiece plus a further five black and white woodblock illustrations by Letherbow and Morton, with tissue-guards. Inscribed by Author. ** CONDITION: Very Good Minus. Boards soiled at edges with light wear. Hinges in order. Light foxing within, to plates and tissue guards. Bookplate to front pastedown. **This satiric poem tells the tale of a lawsuit of one Sir Pie-Crust, a pastry-cook of Manchester, against his aggrieved yet otherwise excellent cat, Tam, with drama of the cat stealing the baker's wares. There are tones of Jonathan Swift here, with Latin-speaking owls in powdered wigs standing in as judges at Court. Dickens, whose "Bleak House" was originally published five years prior, would also have been an influence, as many have interpreted that tale as a call for the reform of Chancery. **AUTHOR Henry Green (1801-1873) English minister and schoolmaster, wrote various sermons, poetry and religious/academic studies, including a number of publications for the Holbein Society, of which he was a founding member. The ARTIST Thomas Letherbrow, (1825-1899) was a part of the Manchester arts circle who founded the United Society of Manchester Artists. He was also a poet and a noted antiquarian as well as a multi-talented artist, producing works in many media and illustrating a large number of books, as this, with engravings.
Ref: ILLUS 8151
$75.00