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The entertaining story of Little Red Riding Hood. : To which is added, Tom Thumb's toy. : Adorned with cuts..

Accession number
PML 83899
Published
York : Printed and sold J. Kendrew, Colliergate., [between ca. 1811 and 1841]
Credit line
Gift; Elisabeth Ball, 1965.
Notes
"Printed by J. Kendrew, Colliergate."--p. 31.
Dated from Davis.
Wrappers included in pagination.
"The [8] illustrations to Little Red Riding Hood are after cuts by [T.] Bewick" (Library of Congress); "illustrated with Bewick cuts, some of which appear in A New-Year's gift for little masters & misses" (Osborne Coll.); but according to F.J. Harvey Darton (Children's books in England, 3rd ed. 1982, p. 74, quoting Kendrew's grandson) "The woodcuts for [Kendrew's] publications were done freshly in York itself, by 'Mr Carrall, a Celebrated Wood Cutter'" (i.e. Michael William Carrall, engraver and printer at York).
"My Mother" [poem by Ann Taylor]: p. 29-31.
List A of Penny books on back wrapper (see Davis, p. 76).
Most of Kendrew's books are without dates; according to Davis, he was a bookseller from about 1803, being first listed as a printer in York directories between 1816-17 although a plate he printed for a conjuring book is dated 1811; he died in 1841 (p. 15 ff) and was succeeded by his son, John Lofthouse Kendrew.
Description
31, [1] p. (first and last p. blank) : 12 ill. (wood engravings) ; 100 mm.
Provenance
From the Elisabeth Ball collection.
Binding
Printed buff wrappers; first and last leaves pasted down. Title on front cover; back cover advertisement, "Penny books printed and sold by J. Kendrew ..." (21 titles, ending with Life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe--List A).
Classification
Department