ZOE'S CATS.

UK,rectangular 8vo HB+dw/dj,reprint.[Originally and first published a year earlier,1982.].FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Zoe Stokes,illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with brown lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges minimally dust-soiled with faint spotting/ foxing,fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original tan cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt cat's head illustration/motif to front,lower corner and bright, crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers. UK,rectangular 8vo HB+dw/dj,reprint,6-62pp [paginated] includes 32 colour plates - illustrated artwork by Zoe Stokes,plus [unpaginated] b/w vignette illustrated half-title page (design repeated to front board's lower corner) with a colour pictorial frntis to it's reverse,title page and colour illustrated last page. Every artist has a favourite theme,and for Cornish artist Zoe Stokes that theme is definitely cats.Fat cats,thin cats,black cats or tabby cats,playful cats,hostile cats,mischievous or good cats . . . here is a richly coloured, humorous and touching treasury of our feline population. Zoe's own two cats - Mungo the temperamental explorer and cunning schemer,and Twiggy the gentle Siamese gymnast - feature prominently in these pages,but here too is Sam the next-door neighbour,Ginger and Snowy the farmyard cats,Tigger,Marmalade,Bobo and even the nameless kitten at the bottom of the pile in the pet shop.Imbued with Zoe's fertile and vivid imagination,the cats acquire human characteristics as they doze in their chairs,gambol in the corn fields,or populate a Cornish inn or country railway station.Yet every gesture,every look,is quintessentially catlike,painted with an accuracy born of a lifetime of loving observation.Every picture tells a story,and Zoe's narrative relates the real-life incidents that inspired each delightful painting.The charm of her witty,finely detailed watercolours, and the originality of her style and ideas,will delight all and bring lasting pleasure to cat lovers everywhere. Zoe Stokes b.1950.She has studied and drawn animals since she was a child.She began painting seriously in 1976,undertaking animal portraits in which she attempted to capture the character of each individual.Her painting is now a full-time occupation and,since 1978,she has been developing the humorous compositions in rich and finely detailed watercolour that are so well represented in this book.Zoe Stokes lives in Cornwall - the setting for her paintings delightful rural backgrounds - with her mother,three dogs and the two cats,Mungo and Twiggy,who make their debut here. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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