Accession number
PML 88898
Published
London ; Paris ; Berlin ; New York ; Montreal : Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., [19--?]
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
First and last page blank pasted to covers.
Text signed on p. [15]: Father Tuck.
Picture book with short verses.
"Publishers to Their Majesties The King & Queen. & T.R.H. The Prince & Princess of Wales"--lower cover. This suggests a publication date between 1901 and 1910, cf. Blair and Margaret Whitton, Collector's guide to Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1991, p. 6.
"Designed at the studios in England and printed at the Fine Art Works in Germany"--lower cover.
Has trademark of Raphael Tuck & Sons on lower cover, consisting of an easel bearing the initials "R&ST, and a palette below it signed "Artistic series" and No. 6439
Most illustrations chromolithographed.
"Untearable"--upper cover.
"F. Loeser & Co. Brooklyn Book Store"--bookseller's label pasted inside upper cover.
Text signed on p. [15]: Father Tuck.
Picture book with short verses.
"Publishers to Their Majesties The King & Queen. & T.R.H. The Prince & Princess of Wales"--lower cover. This suggests a publication date between 1901 and 1910, cf. Blair and Margaret Whitton, Collector's guide to Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1991, p. 6.
"Designed at the studios in England and printed at the Fine Art Works in Germany"--lower cover.
Has trademark of Raphael Tuck & Sons on lower cover, consisting of an easel bearing the initials "R&ST, and a palette below it signed "Artistic series" and No. 6439
Most illustrations chromolithographed.
"Untearable"--upper cover.
"F. Loeser & Co. Brooklyn Book Store"--bookseller's label pasted inside upper cover.
Description
[16] p. : col. ill. (lithographs) ; 24 x 33.5 cm
Provenance
From the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's 1/4 red morocco-grain cloth with glossy pictorial paper boards.
Classification
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Department