John Nash’s Cats. Six Wood Engravings and Two Woodcuts accompanying The Nash Cats Story

The wood-engravings of John Nash was published in 1987 and it is only recently that we were shown a wood-engraving that had been omitted from the book. It was of a cat and brought the total number of cats to eight — six wood-engravings and two woodcuts of which the original blocks were available for five. A celebratory book seemed more appropriate than an addendum sheet. Ronald Blythe, who knew John and Christine Nash well, has written a short piece to accompany the engravings: his delightful story records the exploits of four Nash cats many generations after those depicted in the cuts in the book.