Details

Subject(s)

• Milking—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Children's songs, English [Browse]
• Children's poetry, English [Browse]

Printer

• Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905 [Browse]

Publisher

• Frederick Warne and Co. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Picture books [Browse]
• Printed boards [Browse]

Series

• Randolph Caldecott's picture books ; 9 [More in this series]
• R. Caldecott's picture books

Notes

• Title from t.p. with imprint and series information from both upper and lower covers.
• Publisher's advertisement on lower cover for "Randolph Caldecott's picture books" lists this title as no. 9.
• "Printed and copyrighted by Edmund Evans, Ltd., Rose Place, Globe Road, London, E. 1"--At foot of lower cover.
• Date from NUC.
• Masaki terms this one of Caldecott's "landscape format" toy books, wider than tall (cf. Masaki, p. 132-6).
• Illustrations: Chromoxlyograph illustrations of the story on endpapers, 4 chromoxlyograph plates, and 18 full- and three-quarter page sepia woodcut line-drawings throughout the text.
• Cotsen copy: White cotsen bookplate, dated 6/74, laid in.

Binding note

Pale yellow paper bds. with pictorial chromoxlyograph on upper cover and publisher's advertisement in red and black on lower.

References

• NUC pre-1956, 0022600
• Masaki, T. Victorian picture books, p. 700 (Routledge ed.)

OCLC

1542885

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