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Sing a song for sixpence : one of R. Caldecott's picture books.

Accession number
PML 86778
Creator
Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886.
Published
[London] : George Routledge and Sons, [1880].
Credit line
Gift; Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Cover title; wrappers included in pagination.
"Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Racquet Court, Fleet Street"--back cover.
Pictorial advertisement on lower cover for first six titles in seris "R. Caldecott's Picture books" and for single volume containing four titles.
Fifth in Caldecott's shilling series of 16 pictue books published 1878-1885. For date of publication, cf. English children's books, 1600 to 1900 / by Percy Muir, 1954, p. 199-200. Cf. also Hardie, M. English coloured books, p. 281-282.
Description
30 p. : ill.
Provenance
From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Pale green paper wrappers, printed in red, black, and yellow; first and last leaves pasted to inside of covers. In maroon Caldecott cloth case.
Classification
Department