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.

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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library 2861 Pams / Eng 19 / Box 071 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    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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