The enormous popularity of cats makes them ideal attention-getters in ads, catalogs, newsletters, book and magazine illustrations, craft uses and much more. This rich, immediately usable compendium presents 381 cat illustrations carefully selected from rare 19th- and early 20th- century sources. Included are spot illustrations, vignettes and silhouettes in styles ranging from realistic to humorous and fanciful. Cats are shown alone, in groups, with children, with other animals, in costumes, playing cards, playing the fiddle, catching mice, singing in a choir, running, jumping, in tranquil poses and in many other situations. Artists, designers and craftpeople wanting to add a note of add a note of feline charm to their projects will find this inexpensive collection invaluable.