Accession number
PML 87035
Published
London : G. Routledge & Co., [1857] (Edmd. Evans, Engraver & Printer, Racquet Court, Fleet St)
Credit line
Gift; Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Dated from British Library copyright receipt stamp dated January 1858.
6 full-page colored illustrations printed on reverse of text pages, included in pagination.
"Edmd Evans, engraver & printer, Raquet Court, Fleet St." --last page of the text bears his Racquet Court Address, to which he removed in 1851.
Colored title page and six colored plates engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.
Front cover: "one shilling or on cloth eighteen-pence"
Publisher's advertisements on lower cover.
Inscription on fly leaf: E. Beatrice Smythe, with grandmother's best love"
Note laid in: "This is one of the earlier experimental productions of Edmund Evans, who later became famous for his reproductions of Kate Greenaway's drawings. The somewhat crude plates were produced in three printings, and the illustrated cover, in the use of which Evans was a pioneer, was considered a great novelty."
6 full-page colored illustrations printed on reverse of text pages, included in pagination.
"Edmd Evans, engraver & printer, Raquet Court, Fleet St." --last page of the text bears his Racquet Court Address, to which he removed in 1851.
Colored title page and six colored plates engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.
Front cover: "one shilling or on cloth eighteen-pence"
Publisher's advertisements on lower cover.
Inscription on fly leaf: E. Beatrice Smythe, with grandmother's best love"
Note laid in: "This is one of the earlier experimental productions of Edmund Evans, who later became famous for his reproductions of Kate Greenaway's drawings. The somewhat crude plates were produced in three printings, and the illustrated cover, in the use of which Evans was a pioneer, was considered a great novelty."
Description
[16] p.; ill. 22 cm
Provenance
E. Beatrice Smythe; from the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Original pictorial boards by Edmund Evans.
Classification
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