The Meaning of Mice

This short illustrated tale presents itself as a translation, for human readers, of notes by a well-to-do Painter Mouse. In a few pages of text and pictures the mouse describes his household, clothes, and tools: matchboxes used as furniture, postage stamps hung as pictures, and a tailcoat worn as if for town. He remarks on the huge scale of the rooms and gardens around him and on the manners of other mice, treating their industry as a complete society that runs beneath floors and along skirting boards. The narrative is a quiet fable of one mouse's place in that hidden world, not a field study of rodents and not a chapter from a longer animal saga.

Bound in green gilt title blocked paper with an inset 4-colour cover label. Colour picture printed endpapers. No slipcase. Concertina folded.