Accession number
PML 142689
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Published
[London] : George Routledge & Sons, [1878]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title; imprint from cover.
"One shilling ... One of R. Caldecott's picture books"--front cover.
Second in Caldecott's shilling series of 16 picture 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.
"Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Ra[c]quet Court, Fleet Street"--Back cover.
Illustrated with wood engravings by Evans after Caldecott, including 2 double-page and 5 full-page printed in color (1 on front cover).
The library owns the preparatory drawing by Caldecott for the cover-title (PML 88619).
Issued in illustrated yellow paper covers, counted in collation, with first and last leaf pasted to inside of covers.
Publisher's advertisement on back cover: "Routledge's shilling toy books," nos. 1-79, with gaps (Walter Crane's titles listed separately), listing "R. Caldecott's picture books" (The house that Jack built, John Gilpin, Elegy on a mad dog, and The babes in the wood), unnumbered, at end.
"One shilling ... One of R. Caldecott's picture books"--front cover.
Second in Caldecott's shilling series of 16 picture 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.
"Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Ra[c]quet Court, Fleet Street"--Back cover.
Illustrated with wood engravings by Evans after Caldecott, including 2 double-page and 5 full-page printed in color (1 on front cover).
The library owns the preparatory drawing by Caldecott for the cover-title (PML 88619).
Issued in illustrated yellow paper covers, counted in collation, with first and last leaf pasted to inside of covers.
Publisher's advertisement on back cover: "Routledge's shilling toy books," nos. 1-79, with gaps (Walter Crane's titles listed separately), listing "R. Caldecott's picture books" (The house that Jack built, John Gilpin, Elegy on a mad dog, and The babes in the wood), unnumbered, at end.
Description
31, [1] p. : ill. (wood engravings, some col.) ; 23 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Original illustrated wrappers.
Classification
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