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By Harrison Weir, printed in 1889.
Here we present a few chapters from "Our Cats", written by Harrison Weir in 1889. The drawings of the cats in his book were also made by him.
Harrison Weir was the one who arranged the first cat show in England, in Crystal Palace, London, 1871. He was also the one who wrote the first standards for the different varieties of cats.
Chapters
Long-Haired Cats
- Introduction, and A Deaf Cat
- The Angora
- The Persian Cat
- The Russian Long-Haired Cat
- Curious Long-Haired Cat
- Long-Haired Cats
Short-Haired Cats
- The Tortoiseshell Cat
- The Tortoiseshell-And-White Cat
- The Brown Tabby Cat
- The Spotted Tabby
- The Abyssinian
- White Cats
- The Black Cat
- The Blue Cat [Archangel Cats]
- The Black-And-White Cat & The White-And-Black Cat
- Siamese Cat
- The Manx Cat
- Various Colours
Miscellaneous