HEWARD, CONSTANCE.(WORDS)/ GOVEY, LILIAN A. (PICTURES). — Grandpa and the Tiger.

London: George G.Harrap & Co.Ltd, 1924. 1st edition. 16cms x 11cms. An escaped tiger from a traveling zoo is discovered in Grandpa's garden. The tiger enters the house, where it is finally caught with the result of it ending up as a rug on Grandpa's living room floor. Unpaginated. Colour plates and black & white illustrations by Lilian Govey throughout, illustrated endpapers, gift message to reverse of front free endpaper. Brown boards, colour illustration pasted to front board. Scarce. VG.** "Lilian Amy Govey (1886–1974) was a British illustrator. Her children's books and postcards were popular in the 1920s and were reminiscent of Anne Anderson and Millicent Sowerby. She illustrated for the publishers Harrap, Wells Gardner & Dean (using the pseudonym J.L. Gilmour), Dean, Nelson, and Humphrey Milford. Books include Dean's Happy Christmas Series, The Book of Happy Gnomes, The Old Fairy Tales, The Rose Fairy Book, and Nursery Rhymes from Animal Lands. For Humphrey Milford she illustrated several playbooks, Christmas annuals, and the Postcards for the Little Ones series. Govey passed most of her adult life in a remote Sussex cottage studying folklore, spiritualism, and local history."(Whois).