Accession number
PML 88173-84
Published
[London : Dean & Son, between 1848 and 1871]
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Each of the 12 booklets is 12 pages long, the 2 outer leaves (missing) probably contained the publisher's information. The half-titles all begin with "The popular tale of ...."
All volumes without imprints or dates.
Woodcut illustrations.
All titles listed are in the form shown on the half-title.
The text of "Cat's castle" begins: "Beside a river, wide and deep,"
These match a Dean and Son series called Children's popular tales, published from 11 Ludgate Hill between 1857 and 1865, each of which had wrappers included in the pagination and advertisements on the back according to records found in COPAC.
The Morgan has a colored copy of Jack, the giant killer (PML 81472) that matches the copy here. It has the first and last leaves laid down to publisher's wrappers that bear the imprint Dean and Son, Threadneedle st. and back wrappers listing 13 titles in the Children's and Popular Tales series. They sold for 1d plain, 2d. coloured.
British Book Trade Index locates Dean & Son at several locations on Threadneedle Street between 1848 and 1871.
All volumes without imprints or dates.
Woodcut illustrations.
All titles listed are in the form shown on the half-title.
The text of "Cat's castle" begins: "Beside a river, wide and deep,"
These match a Dean and Son series called Children's popular tales, published from 11 Ludgate Hill between 1857 and 1865, each of which had wrappers included in the pagination and advertisements on the back according to records found in COPAC.
The Morgan has a colored copy of Jack, the giant killer (PML 81472) that matches the copy here. It has the first and last leaves laid down to publisher's wrappers that bear the imprint Dean and Son, Threadneedle st. and back wrappers listing 13 titles in the Children's and Popular Tales series. They sold for 1d plain, 2d. coloured.
British Book Trade Index locates Dean & Son at several locations on Threadneedle Street between 1848 and 1871.
Description
12 v. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
All booklets have been covered in different patterns and colors of marbled wrappers by Deborah Evetts. In a tan cloth drop-spine box with maroon label readiing "Twelve popular tales.
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