The robber kitten
Contributors: Howard, Charles J., illustrator
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: McLoughlin Brothers
Published: 1897
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Copyright date: 1897
Subjects: Children's poetry; Picture books for children; Cats; Juvenile poetry; Brigands and robbers; Violence; Bicycles; Children's accidents; Goats
Notes: Poem by Robert M. Ballantyne.

Shaped book cut in the shape of the standing robber kitten reaching for his sword.

"No. 77.--The robber kitten--shaped. Size, 5 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches. This book contains fourteen pages, of which six and the cover are in full colors. The balance is filled up with the text of the story in verse, and illustrations in black and white [AAS copy small illustrations are colored in red and black ink.] The cover is by lithographic process in colors and gold."--McLoughlin Bros.' catalogue (1897), page 27.

Cover included in pagination.

Cover and illustrations chromolithographed.

Illustrations signed: H [i.e., Charles J. Howard?].

"Bennie the 'scorcher.'"--poem, pages [11-15].

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.