The artist used a diamond-shaped chop containing the words "Bob Cat" to identify their work. No information is currently available about the artist other than they produced work during the late 1920s.

Gosizdat Musical Score Printing House was situated at 13 Kolpachnyi Lane in Moscow. It was under the management of the Musical Sector (Muzykal'nogo Sektora Gosudarstvennogo) of Gosizdat, the State Publishing House. In 1930, Musical Score Printing House was reorganized as Muzgiz (State Musical Publishing House) and in 1964, it was re-named Muzyka (Music). During the Soviet-era, Muzyka maintained a publishing monopoly on sheet music, music books and musical literature. Early-on, the printing house was the State Publishing House ...

Gosizdat was established in Moscow in May 1919 via the merger of the publishing departments of VTsIK (All-Russian Central Executive Committee), the Moscow Soviet, the Petrograd (St. Petersburg) Soviet, the People's Commissariat of the RSFSR, and others. Gosizdat was the first large-scale, state-controlled publisher formed with the purpose of joining the nation's printing and publishing entities under a single institution. While it existed somewhat independent of the government, by 1930 Gosizdat served as the base for the ...