Accession number
PML 143421
Published
London ; New York : Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd, [ca. 1918?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Date of publication suggested by Schuster & Engen.
Decorated endpapers.
First edition published by George Routledge and Sons in 1881. Cf. Schuster & Engen.
"Dating Warne editions is determined by the publisher's imprint: '& Co.' indicates pre-1918 date, thereafter '& Co. Ltd.'"--Schuster & Engen, p. 80.
"Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd. Rose Place, Globe Road, London E."--Colophon.
Ray erroneously identifies date of publication as 1881.
Decorated endpapers.
First edition published by George Routledge and Sons in 1881. Cf. Schuster & Engen.
"Dating Warne editions is determined by the publisher's imprint: '& Co.' indicates pre-1918 date, thereafter '& Co. Ltd.'"--Schuster & Engen, p. 80.
"Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd. Rose Place, Globe Road, London E."--Colophon.
Ray erroneously identifies date of publication as 1881.
Description
52 p. : col. ill. (wood engravings) ; 17 cm.
Provenance
Inscription of T. Balston, dated Dec. 1921, on front flyleaf; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's glazed pictorial boards backed in green cloth, with an illustration of a milkmaid with pail enclosed in a rose trellis border on front cover.
Classification
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