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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Our Cats and All About Them
Harrison Weir
257 pages~5 hr 7 min read128 chapters$4.99
Harrison Weir organized the world's first cat show at the Crystal Palace in 1871, and he wrote the book to match. Here are the breeds, the points, the care and the character of the domestic cat, from a man who loved them enough to give them a stage. The founding text of the cat fancy. Discover the cat through the eyes of its first champion.
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Inside this book
128 chapters
- 1TO MY DEAR WIFE,
- 2I DEDICATE THIS BOOK, IN TOKEN OF MY APPRECIATION OF HER GENTLE AND TENDER KINDNESS TOWARDS ALL ANIMAL LIFE, MORE PARTICULARLY "THE CAT."
- 3PREFACE.
- 4"What is aught, but as 'tis valued?"
- 5PREFACE TO NEW EDITION.
- 6"'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful."
- 7ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 8A reduction of the large black Cat's Head, drawn for the Posting Bill giving notice of the first Cat Show at the Crystal Palace, July 16, 1871.
- 9OUR CATS
- 10AND ALL ABOUT THEM.
- 11INTRODUCTORY.
- 12THE FIRST CAT SHOW.
- 13HABITS.
- 14TRAINED CATS.
- 15LONG-HAIRED CATS.
- 16THE ANGORA.
- 17THE PERSIAN CAT.
- 18THE RUSSIAN LONG-HAIRED CAT.
+ 110 more. The full contents open with the book.
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