NEW, The Cat in Art, Steffano Zuffi, Illustrated, 2007

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2007. New. The unread, heavy book is tight with solid hinges, good tips and clean boards. The textblock is clean with no writing or bookplate and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($35.00 on back) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 360 pages. 9¼ x 9½" tall. Translated from Italian by Simon Jones.

Cats play, pounce, sleep, and purr in 170 great art masterpieces from the ancient world to the present. What cats represent to us in life, they bring to art: elegance and grace, domestic tranquility, and symbols of sensuality and mischievousness.

Here are paintings by Van Eyck, Raphael, Leonardo, Bruegel, Rembrandt, Chardin, Gainsborough, Manet, Renoir, Bonnard, Gauguin, Matisse, Balthus, Picasso, Warhol, and many others.

Stefano Zuffi's charming text tells the reader what it all means, from the feline goddesses of the ancients to the devilish cats of the Middle Ages, to the indispensable companions of our own time.