First printing. A delightful combination of beautifully photographed details of images of cats on quilts dating from 1840 to the mid-20th century, combined with poetry or prose from works by Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and others. Fox discusses the changing styles and techniques of quiltmaking over the past 100 years, identifying the origins of various designs. Cats and kittens are shown in every posture: sitting erect, moving among boughs of berries, tumbling on a table with a ball of yarn, or peeping from a basket. Small almost square format, with 60 illustrations, including 51 plates in full color. 128 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket. .ISBN # 0810957256 |
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