Boston: D. Lothrop & Company, 1881, Large, square octavo, full-color pictorial boards (hardcover), 227 pp. Beautifully Illustrated.



"One evening when a company of children and older people were looking at funny cat-pictures and telling cat-stories, a little ten-year-old girl asked, 'Why can there not be a Cats' Arabian Nights Story Book?'.Cousin Lucia said she was willing to try, and thus it happened that the summer-children and others got a story book beginning, as all story books should begin, with -- once upon a time.".





Condition: binding loose, age-appropriate page tanning.Some writing inside front cover. Illustrated boards show heavy edgewear, soiled areas, & fraying, & all corners are heavily bumped and worn. Outside spine cover missing/cracked. Please see photos.







Inventory 622855-LAW8