Accession number
PML 86796
Creator
Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886.
Published
[London] : George Routledge & Sons. Lim., [between 1889 and 1899?]
Credit line
Gift; Julia P. Wightman; 1991.
Notes
Cover title.
"One shilling"--cover.
"London Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans"--p. [32].
Small-format edition of title first published in 1879; probably printed, if not issued, between 1889, when Routledge became a limited liability company, and 1899, when F. Warne acquired much of the Routledge list.
"Miniature editions" of the first four Caldecott picture books (The house that Jack built, The diverting history of John Gilpin, An elegy on the death of a mad dog, and The babes in the wood) were advertised by F. Warne after that company acquired much of the Routledge list ca. 1899.
"One shilling"--cover.
"London Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans"--p. [32].
Small-format edition of title first published in 1879; probably printed, if not issued, between 1889, when Routledge became a limited liability company, and 1899, when F. Warne acquired much of the Routledge list.
"Miniature editions" of the first four Caldecott picture books (The house that Jack built, The diverting history of John Gilpin, An elegy on the death of a mad dog, and The babes in the wood) were advertised by F. Warne after that company acquired much of the Routledge list ca. 1899.
Description
30, [2] p. : ill. (wood engravings; some col.) ; 14 cm.
Provenance
From the collection of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
In color printed pictorial wrapper; illustrated cover by Caldecott on front cover; ill. from p. 15, with added blue and red engraved tint, on back cover; saddle stitched; all edges gilt.
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