Tom Puss commands the Reapers to tell the King that All the fields belong to the Most Noble, the Marquis of Carabas

George Cruikshank

1864

etching

15 x 9.8 cm vignetted (including caption)

Facing page 14 in "Puss in Boots" in George Cruikshank's Fairy Library, Part Four (1865).

The story was originally issued in a forty-page, paperback format, 18 cm high by 13 cm wide, with eleven engravings on six pages, drawn and etched by George Cruikshank, in 1864, ten years after he had issued "Cinderella and The Glass Slipper."

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