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The history of a apple pie.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, [1858] ([London] : Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Raquet-court, Fleet-street)
Description
[8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library
4402 Pams / Eng 19 / Box 071
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English language
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Alphabet
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Juvenile literature
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Alphabet
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Pictorial works
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Printer
Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905
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Publisher
Routledge, Warne, & Routledge
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Alphabet books
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19th century
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1858
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Series
Aunt Mavor's toy books ; 41
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Notes
Date and series no. from Masaki.
Title, publisher, and series from upper wrapper, which serves as t.p.
"Aunt Mavor's Toy Books; Price Sixpence Each"--At head of title.
4 bifolia, printed on one side only; first and last leaves pasted down to wrappers.
Personified letters all interact with the A apple pie: "B bit it," "C cut it," etc.; a "crudely employed [but] marvelously funny and ideosyncratatic" design (Masaki, II, p. 120).
Illustrations: 4 leaves each with 5-8 large red personified alphabet letters on a dark blue background; 1 double-leaf center-fold procession of all the personified letters arrayed around the apple pie; 1 double-leaf alphabet with red capitals and blue text pasted down to wrappers.
Binding note
Pub. blue pictorial wrappers, with color-printed pictorial design on upper in black and red and publisher's advertisements for various Routledge series on lower wrapper.
References
Masaki, T. Victorian popular picture bks., I, p. 409 (41a)
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Other title(s)
A apple pie
OCLC
179283902
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