Samuel Lover

it looks like an older book and it has oxford edition on the binding and it has a signature it's got a date of dec.25.1895 and i wold like more info on it thank for your time

A collection of extravagantly fanciful stories | The Grey Dolphin......................... Richard Harris Barham | | Moses, the Sassy.......................... Artemus Ward | | Mr. Columbus Coriander's Gorilla | | The Fate of Young Chubb ............ Max Adeler | | Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn.......... Charles Dickens | | The Enthusiast in Anatomy........... John Oxenford | | "The Light Princess"'..................... George Macdonald | | The Legend of the Little Weaver.... Samuel Lover |

Four corpses, all members of the same family, are discovered by a retired academic visiting his old childhood haunts. The police investigation focuses upon the one surviving family member but as the police pursue their enquiries they learn that the family fell from grace years ago and has links to a remote Yorkshire village. "Hennessey and Yellich find that blue blood marks the spot There was a time when Simon Knapp wouldn't have dared go near Edgefield House - as a teenager, he'd only had the nerve to snoop around the grounds. But now, returning fifty years on, he marches straight up to the derelict eighteenth-century stately home and pushes open its front door. Curiosity killed the cat and Knapp then faces something that makes his mature nonchalance seem decidedly ill-placed."

Barney O'Toole, a poor Irish tinker, becomes a baron when he wins a German castle in a lottery.

Domesticated since the time of the Pharaohs, but never completely tamed, cats still retain their sense of mystery and fascinate those privileged enough to share their lives. The inimitable free spirit of the eat is celebrated in this 'purr-fectly' charming selection of cat stories, anecdotes, essays and poems. In Great Cat Tales you will find a wealth of tributes from both famous authors of the past and well-loved contemporary writers. The wide- ranging contents embrace Leigh Hunt's "The Cat by the Fire" and Rudyard Kipling's myth-like "The Cat That Walked by Himself;" Charles Dudley Warner's famous and touching portrait "Calvin the Cat;" eerie murderous instincts in Patricia Highsmith's "Ming's Biggest Prey;" uproarious comedy in "The Story of Webster" by P.G. Wodehouse; and poems by, among others, Emily Dickinson, John Keats and W.B. Yeats. Essential reading for cat-lovers everywhere, Great Cat Tales is a deft balance of old favorites and new and delightful surprises. --front flap