"This was got up for a bazaar in aid of a ragged school, and having since served at other bazaars, the copies still left on hand after doing their best for human-beings, may surely ... be handed over to the annual bazaars of the Temporary Home for Lost and Starving Dogs, formerly at Holloway, now at Lower Wandsworth Road, Battersea. ..."--Notice affixed to the inside of the front wrapper.

Cover title.

The artist of the present work is probably William Parkinson, who contributed illustrations to various London magazines in the 1880s and 1890s (see: Houfe, Bryant & Heneage). A William Parkinson is also recorded as treasurer of the Temporary Home for Lost and Starving Dogs circa 1870.

Damage: Part of upper cover missing. Several leaves torn. All quite battered.

cat Victorian 20160129 vmb

cons 163-17 20170621 condition received: multiple tears and folds throughout and dirty pages treatment: vacummed pages, erased marks, mended tears with heat set tissue and wheat starch paste, ironed out folds Moné Eppel, student technician

Includes 3 pages of advertisements at end of main sequence for the Temporary Home of Lost and Starving Dogs. Three and a half lines of contributors names crossed out at the end of page [3].

Bound in pink glazed paper wrappers, upper illustrated with three women dancing around a punch bowl. All illustrations, including upper cover, are hand-colored.