Orlando (the marmalade cat) : keeps a dog / by Kathleen Hale

Kathleen Hale

RA Collection: Book

Record number

12/927

Author

Edition

First edition

Imprint

London; New York; : Country Life Limited; Transatlantic Arts, [1948]

Physical Description

32 pages : colour illustrations 37 cm.

General Note

"The illustrations in this book have been drawn direct by the Author on `Plastocowell’ a transparent plastic material used in Lithography and Lithographed in Great Britain by W. S. Cowell Ltd at their Press, The Butter Market, Ipswich.” [p.2].
Orlando (the marmalade cat) is the subject of the series (of the same name) of 19 illustrated children's books written by Kathleen Hale between 1938 and 1972.

References

Hahn, Daniel (26 March 2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 433. ISBN 9780199695140.
Carey, Frances & Tempest-Radford, Hugh, Plastocowell and Orlando the Marmalade Cat. Print Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 3 (September 2002), pp. 278-280.

Copy Note

No publication-date is given. The book was first published in 1948. This copy carries a handwritten inscription dated 17th November 1949.

Binding Note

Publisher's pictorial paper covered boards.

Subject

Illustrated books
Children's stories
Picture books
Auto-lithographs

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