Accession number
PML 142703
Creator
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.
Published
[London] : George Routledge & Sons, [1885]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Cover title.
Sixteenth 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.
The text is a nonsense paragraph devised by Samuel Foote in 1755 to test the memory of the actor Charles Macklin, who boasted that he could repeat by memory anything that he had heard or read a single time.
"Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Racquet Court, Fleet Street, E.C."--Back cover.
Illustrated with wood engravings by Evans after Caldecott, including 7 full-page printed in color (1 on front cover).
Issued in illustrated light beige paper covers.
Publisher's advertisement on back cover for "R. Caldecott's picture books" (1 shilling each), 16 titles; "R. Caldecott's picture books" (5 shillings each), vols. I and II, plus "Hey diddle diddle picture book" and "The great Panjandrum picture book"; "R. Caldecott's Collection of pictures and songs"; and "R. Caldecott's second collection of pictures and songs."
Sixteenth 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.
The text is a nonsense paragraph devised by Samuel Foote in 1755 to test the memory of the actor Charles Macklin, who boasted that he could repeat by memory anything that he had heard or read a single time.
"Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Racquet Court, Fleet Street, E.C."--Back cover.
Illustrated with wood engravings by Evans after Caldecott, including 7 full-page printed in color (1 on front cover).
Issued in illustrated light beige paper covers.
Publisher's advertisement on back cover for "R. Caldecott's picture books" (1 shilling each), 16 titles; "R. Caldecott's picture books" (5 shillings each), vols. I and II, plus "Hey diddle diddle picture book" and "The great Panjandrum picture book"; "R. Caldecott's Collection of pictures and songs"; and "R. Caldecott's second collection of pictures and songs."
Description
22, [2] p. : ill. (wood engravings, some col.) ; 21 x 24 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Original illustrated paper covers.
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