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DIE PFLANZE IN KUNST UND GEWERBE [aka THE PLANT IN ART AND INDUSTRY ]by Anton Seder. (Gerlach & Schenk, 1886) Color lithographs. 2 vols. 200 plates

Anton Johann Nepomuk Seder (11 January 1850, Munich – 1 December 1916, Strasbourg) was an Art Nouveau designer, art professor and Director of the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Strasbourg.

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IN CATLAND with Louis Wain. (London/Paris/New York: Raphael Tuck, c.1890) Concertina pages of thick boards hinged with cloth to fold out rather than turn.

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FATHER TUCK’S FAIRY TALE ABC (London/Paris/New York: Raphael Tuck, c. 1890) Part of Father Tuck’s Little Pet series.

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CATS AT PLAY by Louis Wain (London/Paris/New York: Raphael Tuck, c. 1890)

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FUR AND FEATHER [cat with blue bow] (London/Paris/New York: Raphael Tuck, ?)Cover and Illustrations by Louis Wain. Concertina pages of thick boards hinged with cloth to fold out rather than turn. Part of the Father Tuck Panorama Series.

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RŰBEZAHL: DER HERR DES RIESENGEBIRGES [aka RÜBEZAHL: LORD OF THE GIANT MOUNTAINS] by K.A. Müeller (Leipzig: Verlag, Abel, and Mũeller, c.1890)

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FATHER TUCK’S ANNUAL edited by Captain Edric Vredenburg (London/Paris/New York, c.1920) Illustrations by H.G. Theaker, Louis Wain, Oswald Griffin, J.A. Labrousse, and others.

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ISN’T IT FUNNY? (London/Paris/New York: Raphael Tuck, 1895) Father Tuck’s Mechanical Series.

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GRANNY’S STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS by Edrich Vredenburg (London/Paris/ New York: Raphael Tuck, c.1890) Father Tuck’s Mechanical Series.

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BUTTERFLY BALLADS AND STORIES IN RHYME by Helen Aldridge (London: Milne, 1898). Illustrations by Louis Wain, Gordon Browne, and others.

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FATHER TUCK’S ANNUAL edited by Edric Vredenburg (London/Paris/Berlin/New York/Berlin/Montreal: Raphael Tuck, 1909). Cover by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Illustrated by Hilda Cowham, M. & AL Bowley, et al.

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PETER, A CAT O’ ONE TAIL — HIS LIFE AND ADVENTURES by Charles Robert Morley (New York/London: Putnam, 1892) Knickerbocker Press. Illustrated by Louis Wain.

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TALES OF FOLK AND FAIRIES by Katharine Pyle (Boston: Little Brown, 1919). Illustrated.

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HALLOWE’EN by Robert Haven Schauffler, 1879-1964. (New York: Dodd Mead, 1933)

Its origin, spirit, celebration, and significance as related in prose and verse, together with Hallowe’en stories, plays, pantomimes; and suggestions for games, stunts, parties, feasts, and decorations.

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CRUISING IN THE INDIAN SEA (Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1894) Illustrated.

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THE BOOK OF HALLOWE’EN by Ruth E. Kelley. (Boston: Lothrop & Shepard, c. 1919) Illustrated.

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ONCE UPON A TIME: A Book of Old-Time Fairy Tales by Katharine Lee Bates (Chicago: Rand McNally, c1921) Illustrated by Margaret Evans Price.