Accession number
PML 85704.2
Published
[London] : George Routledge & Sons, [1882]
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Benjamin Brewster Jennings, 1977.
Notes
Title from cover.
Text consists of Mother Goose rhymes.
Number ten 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 advertisements on lower cover for: "R. Caldecot'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)
Text consists of Mother Goose rhymes.
Number ten 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 advertisements on lower cover for: "R. Caldecot'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
23, [1] 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.
Classification
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