A Selection of pictures from Cats In Books
Illustration from The White Cat (1847)
The Lindisfarne Gospels (698)
Aesop: The Catte & the Chyken (1494)
Dick Whittington's cat rids the Sultan's Palace of rats (1888)
Cardinal Richelieu the catlover (1845)
Puss asks his master for a pair of boots and a game bag (1858)
The Comical Creatures of Wurtemburg at the Great Exhibition (1851)
Edward Lear's cat Foss (1880)
Pussies at Mischief: Meg & the Lobster, artist unknown (1873)
Kipling's Cat that walked by Himself
Just-So Stories (1902)