The comical cat.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Ward, Lock, and Tyler, [1865?] (London, Raquet Court, Fleet Street : Edmund Evans, engraver and printer)
Description
[6] leaves, [6] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Illustrator
Printer
Publisher
Library of Congress genre(s)
Rare books genre
Series
  • Ward, Lock, & Tyler's new shilling series of painted toy-books
  • New shilling series of painted toy-books
Summary note
The story of "Dame Trot and her cat."
Notes
  • Title and publication information from upper wrapper, which serves as t.p., and from lower wrapper publisher's advertisement.
  • Date from Spencer; Ward, Lock, & Tyler published under that imprint from 1865-1873 (cf. Brown).
  • Printed on one side of the leaf only; text, printed in light blue, as are decorative headpieces, facing illustrations.
  • "Ward, Lock, & Tyler's New Shilling Series of Painted Toy Books, embellished with large spirited engravings, printed in coulours by Edmund Evans, post 4to, fancy wrappers"--Publisher's advertisement on lower wrapper, which lists 7 titles, this being the third. (Publisher's address listed as: 158, Fleet street, and 107, Dorset street, Salisbury square.)
  • Inside wrappers are blank.
  • Illustrations: frontis. and 5 other chromoxylographs in yellow, red, green, brown, and blue by Walter Crane; plates on leaves [3-6] signed with an early version of his "WC" monogram.
Binding note
Pub. golden-yellow wrappers with pictorial chromoxylograph, showing 3 vignettes of the comical cat in action, on upper wrapper and publisher's advertisement on lower.
References
  • Spencer, I. Walter Crane, p. 201
  • Brown, P. London Publishers, p. 214
OCLC
320902712
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