BONSALL, ELIZABETH FEARNE & HAINES, ALICE CALHOUN
THE BOOK OF THE DOG. With facsimiles of drawings in colour by Elizabeth F. Bonsall and with stories and verses by Alice Calhoun Haines
NY, Frederick A. Stokes. 1905. Hard, 4to. Hard cover in original pictorial boards. Published NY: Frederick A. Stokes, 1905. Large 4to. 10 1/2" x 11 3/4", unpaginated, illustrated with 6 (including frontis) recto printed full page color plates, two-color page borders of numerous dogs throughout, plus b/w drawings in text panels by Elizabeth Bonsall. Gray cloth and color pictorial paper covered boards. Wear to the boards along edges and tips, small tear/chipping to the spine cloth at the heel, short gift inscription on fly leaf, else very good, covers and internals clean, bright, unmarked, binding strong. Contents include: Puppies; Cleopatra's babies; A happy thought; General Napoleon; A modest ambition; Model dogs; Different voices; At the show; A bully apology; The sad end of Arabella; Doggie's toilet; Why Mousie ran away; Very scarce! Only four copies in WorldCat. Very Good Minus/No Jacket.
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