Accession number
PML 85704.7
Creator
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774.
Published
[London] : George Routledge & Sons, [1885]
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Benjamin Brewster Jennings, 1977.
Notes
Title from cover.
Number fifteen in Caldecott's picture book 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.
a 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)
Number fifteen in Caldecott's picture book 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.
a 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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Department