The great Panjandrum himself.

Author
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
[London] : George Routledge & Sons, [1885] ([London] : Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Raquet Court, Fleet Street)
Description
22, [2] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 x 24 cm.

Copies in the Library

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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library 6957 Pams / Eng 19 / Box 071 Browse related items Reading Room Request
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  • Princeton copy 2
    Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library 6957 Pams / Eng 19 / Box 071 Browse related items Reading Room Request
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    • Princeton copy 1
      Special Collections - Graphic Arts Collection 2005-1380N Browse related items Reading Room Request
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          Special Collections - Rare Books Oversize PZ8.3.C127 Gr Browse related items Reading Room Request

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            Subject(s)
            Illustrator
            Printer
            Publisher
            Library of Congress genre(s)
            Rare books genre
            Series
            R. Caldecott's picture books [More in this series]
            Notes
            • "R. Caldecott's Picture Books"--Upper wrapper.
            • Cover title.
            • "Price, One Shilling"--At head of title on upper wrapper.
            • "Printed and copyrighted by Edmund Evans, Ltd., Rose Place, Globe Road, London, E. 1"--At foot of lower wrapper.
            • Authorship attribution and date from Osborne.
            • Text is a nonsense verse devised by Samuel Foote to test the memory of actor Charles Macklin, who boasted that he could repeat by memory anything that he had heard or read even a single time (cf. Osborne).
            • One of Caldecott's "landscape format" toy books, wider (24 cm) than tall (20 cm), and generally dating as a group from 1882-1885 (cf. Masaki, p. 132-6).
            • Illustrations: 6 full-page chromoxlyographs plates, and other pages with three-quarter page woodcut line-drawings in black-brown with text above or below.
            • Princeton copy 1: White Cotsen bookplate, dated 3/69 in JoAnne Cotsen's hand.
            • Princeton copy 2: White Cotsen bookplate, dated 8/70 in JoAnne Cotsen's hand.
            Binding note
            Pub. pale yellow wrappers with pictorial chromoxlyograph on upper and publisher's advertisement in black on lower.
            References
            • Osborne Coll., p. 63
            • Ludin, A. Victorian horizons, p. 145
            • Masaki, T. Victorian picture books, p. 711
            LCCN
            15002191
            OCLC
            8525592
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