The Art of the Cat

Many of the Archive’s scanned books contain beautiful or entertaining artwork. The art in these public domain books is free for download, use, or re-use in anyway you like. To illustrate this bounty, we present a selection of books featuring cats.

(Click a flip book and then click through the pages to find illustrations.)

• The Cat’s Elegy (1913): Item / Flip Book
• Kittens and Cats; A Book of Tales (1911): Item / Flip Book
• Mischief Again (1954): Item / Flip Book
• Letters from a Cat Published by Her Mistress for the Benefit of All Cats… (1879): Item / Flip Book
• Cats and All About Them (1907): Item / Flip Book
• The Tale of Tom Kitten (1907): Item / Flip Book
• The Adventures of Whittington and His Cat (1850): Item / Flip Book
• Nonsense Drolleries: The Owl and the Pussy-cat; The Duck and the Kangaroo (1889): Item /Flip Book
• Dame Trot and Her Cat (188-?): Item / Flip Book
• Three Little Kittens : A Story for Little Tots (1908): Item / Flip Book