Accession number
PML 85704.1
Published
[London] : George Routledge & Sons, [1882]
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Benjamin Brewster Jennings, 1977.
Notes
Caption title; publisher from cover.
Number nine in Caldecott's picture books series of sixteen square format, one-shilling books. For date cf. Percy Muir, English children's books, 1600 - 1900, 1969, p. 199-200.
"One shilling"--upper cover.
"Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Racquet Court, Fleet Street"--lower cover.
The line-drawings and seven full-page colored illustrations (including upper cover) are engraved and printed by Edmund Evans after Caldecott.
Publisher's advertisement on lower cover for: "R. Caldecott's picture books, one shilling each" (10 titles) ; "R. Caldecott's picture books, five shillings" volume I (4 titles) and volume II (4 titles) ; "R. Caldecott's collection of pictures and songs, ten shillings and sixpence" (8 titles)
Number nine in Caldecott's picture books series of sixteen square format, one-shilling books. For date cf. Percy Muir, English children's books, 1600 - 1900, 1969, p. 199-200.
"One shilling"--upper cover.
"Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Racquet Court, Fleet Street"--lower cover.
The line-drawings and seven full-page colored illustrations (including upper cover) are engraved and printed by Edmund Evans after Caldecott.
Publisher's advertisement on lower cover for: "R. Caldecott's picture books, one shilling each" (10 titles) ; "R. Caldecott's picture books, five shillings" volume I (4 titles) and volume II (4 titles) ; "R. Caldecott's collection of pictures and songs, ten shillings and sixpence" (8 titles)
Description
22, [2] p. : ill. (wood engravings, some col.) ; 20 x 23.5 cm
Provenance
From the library of Mrs. Benjamin Brewster Jennings.
Binding
Publisher's pictorial paper covers; in contemporary brown calf, titles stamped in gold.
Classification
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