Details

Subject(s)

• Merlin (Legendary character) in literature [Browse]
• Tom Thumb (Tale)—Juvenile fiction [Browse]

Printer

Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905 [Browse]

Bookseller

Arthur, T. W. (Thomas William) [Browse]

Publisher

Routledge, Warne, & Routledge [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fairy tales [Browse]
• Fiction [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Printed wrappers [Browse]
• Publishers' advertisements [Browse]

Series

• Aunt Mavor's toy books ; 15b [More in this series]
• Aunt Mavor's everlasting toy books
• Aunt Mavor's toy books for little readers [More in this series]

Notes

• Date from Masaki; Osborne suggests a date of 1860.
• Printer and publisher's address from lower wrapper.
• Title and publisher from upper wrapper, which serves as t.p.; "Aunt Mavor's Toy Books for Little Readers" from lower wrapper advertisement, which lists series titles #12-43, with Tom Thumb as #15.
• "Aunt Mavor's Everlasting Toy Books; Price One Shilling Each"--At head of title.
• 4 bifolia, printed on one side only; first and last leaves pasted down to wrappers.
• Printed on linen; hence "everlasting."
• Illustrations: 8 hand-colored, three-quarter-page wood-engravings within black borders, with text set below.
• Text begins: "Merlin, the magician, once stopped" (cf. 15a, which begins: "A famous Ma-gi-ci-an called Mer-lin was once in a dark forest," according to Masaki, p. 378).
• This version includes accounts of Tom Thumb's adventures at the court of King Arthur.
• Cotsen copy: "T. W. Arthur, bookseller & stationer, 34 English Street, Carlisle"--Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown.
• Cotsen copy: ""Anna Burden, Christmas, 1861"--Inscribed in pen on front pastedown.

Binding note

Pub. blue-gray linen wrappers, with pictorial upper, repeating colored ill. on leaf [8] in red and black within a framed red border; title in red and black; publisher's advertisement on lower also lists "Maria Edgeworth Juvenile Titles."

References

• Masaki, T. Victorian popular picture bks., I, p. 378 (15b)
• Osborne Coll., p. 45

Other title(s)

• Tom Thumb
• Burden, Anna.

OCLC

14977775

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