Accession number
PML 142691
Published
[London] : George Routledge & Sons, [1879]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Cover title.
"One of R. Caldecott's picture books"--front cover.
Fourth 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; listed in English catalogue III, p. 74: "4to, 1s Routledge 1879". Osborne Coll. gives dates as 1880.
Text is that of the ballad The children in the wood, beginning "Now ponder well, you parents deare."
"Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Raquet Court, Fleet Street"--Back cover.
Illustrated with wood engravings by Evans after Caldecott, including 9 full-page printed in color (1 on front cover).
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 of R. Caldecott's picture books"--front cover.
Fourth 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; listed in English catalogue III, p. 74: "4to, 1s Routledge 1879". Osborne Coll. gives dates as 1880.
Text is that of the ballad The children in the wood, beginning "Now ponder well, you parents deare."
"Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Raquet Court, Fleet Street"--Back cover.
Illustrated with wood engravings by Evans after Caldecott, including 9 full-page printed in color (1 on front cover).
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
30, [2] p. : ill. (wood engravings, some col.) ; 23 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Original illustrated paper covers.
Classification
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