The poll-parrot picture book : containing, Tittums and Fido ; Ann and her mamma ; Reynard the Fox ; The cats' tea-party / with twenty-four pages of illustrations printed in colours by Kronheim.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : George Routledge and Sons, [1871]
Description
[3], 6, [1], 6, [1], 6, [1], 6 leaves, [24] leaves of plates : col. ill. (wood engravings) ; 27 cm.

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Library of Congress genre(s)
Rare books genre
Getty AAT genre
Notes
  • Date from BL (Titums, Ann, and Tea-Party all first pub. sequentially in 1871 as part of Routledge's Shilling series).
  • Publisher's monogramed logo printed on t.p. ; t. p. printed within thin ruled border.
  • Printed on alternate rectos and versos with blank guard-sheet leaves between.
  • 4 separate works (3 about animals who dress and act like people), each with its own half-t.p. and a different layout, bound together into 1 vol.
  • Routledge's "Picture Books" were cloth-bound compilations of 4 Shilling Series titles, also pub. individually in wrappers (cf. Cotsen 14762, Tittums and Fido).
  • Illustrations: First two works each with 6 colored engravings and the second two each with 5, both including a double-leaf centerfold ill.;
  • Cotson copy: 3rd plate from "Titums and Fido" misbound so it faces p. 4 of "Cat's Tea Party."
Binding note
Pub. maroon bds., black- and gilt-stamped on upper with pictorial design (repeating plate [4] from "Titums") showing Paul Parrot wooing Mrs Daw.
References
  • BM, 192:423.
  • Masaki, T. Vic. pop. pic. bks., I, p. 618, 659 (Cat's Tea Party)
Other title(s)
  • Reynard the Fox.
  • Tittums and Fido
  • Tittums & Fido
  • Ann and her mamma
  • Cats' tea-party
OCLC
913295721
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