Accession number
PML 142690
Creator
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774.
Published
[London] : George Routledge and Sons, [1879]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Imprint from cover.
"One of R. Caldecott's picture books"--front cover.
Third 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. Osborne Coll. gives date as 1880.
"Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Ra[c]quet Court, Fleet Street"--Back wrapper.
Illustrated with wood engravings by Evans after Caldecott, including 9 full-page printed in color (1 on front cover).
Issued in illustrated green 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 of R. Caldecott's picture books"--front cover.
Third 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. Osborne Coll. gives date as 1880.
"Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Ra[c]quet Court, Fleet Street"--Back wrapper.
Illustrated with wood engravings by Evans after Caldecott, including 9 full-page printed in color (1 on front cover).
Issued in illustrated green 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
30, [2] 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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Department