Eliza Keary — Cat & Dog Life

London, Marcus Ward & Co. c1890. Hardback. A vanishingly scarce and beautiful picture book on two lovely tales on cats and dogs, from Marcus Ward's scarce Colour Picture book series. Cat & Dog Life, a vanishingly scarce book within the equally scarce Marcus Ward's Coloured Picture book series, with stories written by Birtish children's author Eliza Keary.  In the publisher's original quarter cloth with pictorial paper boards. Contains all twelve full-page colour illustrations, and numerous in-text illustrations. Collated complete. Originally founding a company based on stationary and general published, Ward soon became very skilful with colour lithography, winning a medal at the 1851 Great Exhibition, and henceforth devoted his company to printing children's books and greeting cards. This particular charming work, published after hid death, contains stories written by Keary, a popular children's author who previously wrote Heroes of Asgard with her sister Annie. Stories include: - The Ugly Kitten - The Adventures of Frisk In the publisher's original quarter cloth with pictorial paper boards. Externally, mostly smart, with minor fading to boards and minimal marks. Rubbing to edges and joints, with bumps to head and tail of spine, and to extremities, with minor loss to cloth and paper. Slight browning to end papers, with offsetting to free end papers. Minor wear to end paper hinges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with very faint offsetting to leaves. Good . Ill.: Unknown. Good .