Details

Subject(s)

• Children's poetry, English—19th century [Browse]
• Cock Robin (Fictitious character)—Juvenile poetry [Browse]
• Birds—Pictorial works—Juvenile literature [Browse]

Printer

Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905 [Browse]

Engraver

Calvert, William, active 1859-1861 [Browse]

Attributed name

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 [Browse]

Publisher

Ward, Lock, & Tyler [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Series

• Ward, Lock, & Tyler's new shilling series of painted toy books
• New shilling series of painted toy-books
• Painted toy books

Notes

• Title and publisher from upper wrapper; printer at foot of lower wrapper.
• Undated, but Ward, Lock & Tyler published under that imprint from 1865-1873 (cf. Brown); Walter Crane's contributions to the first 3 titles in this series is dated 1865 by Spencer and Masaki.
• "One shilling, coloured; indestructible edition on strong cloth, 2s"--At head of title.
• Text and ills. both printed on one side only; text, with decorative head- and tail-pieces, printed in red, facing chromoxylographs; first and last leaves, with advertisements printed in black and set in 2 cols., laid down to wrappers.
• Illustrations: 6 five-color full-page chromoxylographs in yellow, red, green, brown, and blue, 4 signed by Calvert; illustrations possibly by Crane (cf. "The Work of Walter Crane," 1898, p. 3, citing this title as Crane's 1865 work).
• Publisher's advertisement on lower wrapper for "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," listing 7 titles this being the second.
• Additional publisher's advertisements for Ward, Lock, and Tyler's "juvenile illustrated gift books" and for their "pretty picture books for all good children" laid down to front and rear wrappers, resp.
• Cf. Masaki, Victorian Popular Picture Books (pt. 2, p. 183); Spencer, Walter Crane (p. 201).

Binding note

Pub. golden-yellow wrappers, upper with centered pictorial chromoxylograph within red-ruled border (with variation of leaf 3 ill.) and lower with advertisement.

OCLC

1008379330

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