REPPLIER, Agnes "The Fireside Sphinx" [Houghton Mifflin, 1901] 1st Edition, Cats

[CATS] REPPLIER, Agnes. The Fireside Sphinx.

New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901. First edition. 7.5" x 5.25", xi + 305pp. Blue cloth with black, white, and gilt decorations and gilt spine titling. With illustrations by Elizabeth F. Bonsall. Spine lightly sunned. Textblock clean and binding secure. Very Good+.

Repplier’s The Fireside Sphinx is a unique collection of miniature essays blending history, art, legend, and literary scholarship to explore humanity’s multifaceted relationship with the cat. It takes readers from ancient Egypt—the cradle of feline reverence—all the way to medieval nunneries, Renaissance art, witch-trial hysteria, and the literary salons where beloved writers kept cats as companions.