The History of Tabby a Favourite Cat

Book Description

London: Published for Didier and Tebbett, 1809. As Related by Herself to her Kitten. 66, [2]pp., 18mo. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and two plates; a little browning and minor soiling. Attractively and appropriately bound in morocco-backed marbled boards antique, spine gilt, by Philip Dusel. First and apparently the only edition of the only book published by this author, a charming and quite early first-feline narrative novel. Old Tabby sits in the tree watching the gambols of her favourite kitten, declines the offer of play, and begins to relate the story of her life, from her own early adoption as a kitten, to her trials and tribulations at the hands of some cruel boys, and her heroic resistance of temptation when shut up all night in a pigeon-coop. Osborne, p. 942, noting printed wrappers; COPAC locates copies at the British Library and National Library of Scotland; OCLC adds the Lilly Library.

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