Accession number
PML 85704.8
Creator
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.
Published
[London] : George Routledge & Sons [1885]
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Benjamin Brewster Jennings, 1977.
Notes
Title from cover.
The text is a nonsense paragraph devised by Samuel Foote in 1755 to test the memory of the actor Charles Macklin, who boasted that he could repeat by memory anything that he had heard or read a single time.
Number sixteen 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.
"Price one shilling"--upper cover.
"Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Racquet Court, Fleet Street, E.C."--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. Caldecott's picture books, one shilling each" (16 titles) ; "R. Caldecott's picture books, five shillings each" volume I (4 titles) and volume II (4 titles) ; "Hey diddle diddle picture book" (4 titles) ; "The great Panjandrum picture book" (4 titles) ; "R. Caldecott's collection of pictures and songs, ten shillings and sixpence" (8 titles) ; "R. Caldecott's second collection of pictures and songs, ten shillings and sixpence" (8 titles)
The text is a nonsense paragraph devised by Samuel Foote in 1755 to test the memory of the actor Charles Macklin, who boasted that he could repeat by memory anything that he had heard or read a single time.
Number sixteen 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.
"Price one shilling"--upper cover.
"Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Racquet Court, Fleet Street, E.C."--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. Caldecott's picture books, one shilling each" (16 titles) ; "R. Caldecott's picture books, five shillings each" volume I (4 titles) and volume II (4 titles) ; "Hey diddle diddle picture book" (4 titles) ; "The great Panjandrum picture book" (4 titles) ; "R. Caldecott's collection of pictures and songs, ten shillings and sixpence" (8 titles) ; "R. Caldecott's second collection of pictures and songs, ten shillings and sixpence" (8 titles)
Description
22, [2] p. : ill. (wood engravings, some col.) ; 20 x 23 cm
Provenance
From the library of Mrs. Benjamin Brewster Jennings.
Binding
Publisher's pictorial paper covers.
Classification
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