The history of A apple pie.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, [1859] ([London] : Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Raquet-court, Fleet-street)
Description
[8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Engraver
Publisher
Rare books genre
Series
Aunt Mavor's toy books ; 41 [More in this series]
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.
  • Text the same as in Routledge's 1858 Aunt Mavor ed., but illustrations are different (cf. Cotsen 4402).
  • Illustrations: 8 leaves each with a three-quarter page chromoxylograph by Evans, 3-4 capitals and text below in black; facing double-leaf "center-fold" with illustration running across both leaves and 6 alphabet letters below; leaves [7] and [8] signed by Evans.
Binding note
Pub. yellow wrappers, with color-printed pictorial design on upper in red and black, repeating l. [1]; publisher's advertisements for Routledge New Juvenile Books, variously priced at 8, 6, or 5 shillings each.
References
Masaki, T. Victorian popular picture bks., I, p. 410 (41b)
Other title(s)
A apple pie
OCLC
179283150
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